The constitution of the educational relationship

Abstract

In this text we don’t want to discuss any pedagogical theory on what education should be like. We want to do an exercise of phenomenological description prior to any theory: we wonder what is an educational act and what must happen to establish an educational relationship between two or more people. While we clarify this, we will highlight the differences between the educational phenomenon itself and other phenomena, which can often be involved in it, but that we must be able to distinguish from it: such as indoctrination, instruction, teaching, learning, training, care, authority, power or violence. I would like to thank the Grup d’Estudis Fenomenològics for their many contributions to improving this text.