Kultura wychowania jako fenomen drogi okrężnej
Culture of education as a phenomenon of a detour

Summary/Abstract: I treat the concept of “culture of education” in terms of contractual, theoretical construct, which presents specific meanings and significances from the point of view of pedagogical thinking and action. The spatial metaphor of a detour is a heuristic clue in an attempt to approach these significances and meanings. In this context: 1) I distinguish between the meaning of metaphors of a direct road, a shortcut, a detour and a road to nowhere, 2) I recall selected cultural and philosophical applications of a detour topos, 3) I clarify the concepts of homo culturalis and mondo civile from the point of view of culture as a detour. This is a basis for recognition the culture of education by: 1) formulation the guidelines for defining the understanding of this concept from the perspective of a detour metaphor, 2) definition of existential ethos, expressed in attitudes and reasons of pedagogical thinking and actions, 3) separation four forms of rationalization and preservation of existential habitus within the educational interactions.

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