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• EDUCATION – DIGITAL AND BIOTECHNICAL OR: TWO UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS BY THE CENTAUR_ESSAS, GETTING OFF THE HORSE

  Johanna Hopfner

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  Abstract

  If you try to understand current developments in the field of education, the image transmissions that come from the war and show all the suffering and misery that people in the contested areas are exposed to in real, not just virtual, come to the fore. The impressions even surpass the extent and quality of the simple upheavals that children and young people were recently expected to face in the course of the pandemic - in the educational and teaching processes, their usual social associations of classes and groups. After a further strong push into digitality, children and young people are now experiencing directly and almost up close what it must feel like to persevere in shafts or to flee from live fire, bombs and rockets. In any case, the images confronted us "in physical real time with a reality" of the war, which were part of the daily reporting in the first few weeks until, from the point of view of those responsible, they were exhausted and did their service for the willingness to donate that was to be initiated. Then the display of the ORF "Neighbor in Need" with the corresponding donation account is apparently sufficient.

  Aims: The aim of the article is to draw attention to the one-sidedness of educational phenomena. The emphasis on intellectual skills associated with digital media neglects physical development. Conversely, physical processes cannot be separated from mental and emotional developments. The social dynamics place special demands on education and at the same time always show the limits of education.

   

  References

  References:

  Petra Gehring, Christian Grüny, Martin W. Schnell, "Schwerpunkt: Digitalität und Erfahrung",

  in: Journal Phänomenologie 55 (2021), S. 4–6.

  Ebd., S. 4.

  Symbols can denote bodily experience and feeling - sometimes this is not done very clearly -

  but they cannot replace it in the sense of "taking the place of experience".

  Wolfgang Sünkel, Centaurus. Reden über Humanismus und Anthropologie, Frankfurt/Main:

  Sendler 1983, S. 56.

  See ibid. - Here one could easily make a connection to Merleau-Ponty's efforts to radically

  question dualism, for example when he writes: "It is absolutely not possible for humans to have a first

  layer of behaviors called 'natural' and a second, to want to distinguish between the layer of the spiritual

  or cultural world that has just been created and the layer that has been laid on top of it. […] In humans

  […] everything is manufactured or everything is natural" (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phänomenologie der

  Wahrnehmung, übers. von Rudolf Boehm, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1966, S. 224).

  Ibid., S. 59.