Mimetic Didaktik: On the Similarities between Didaktik and Poetics
Author(s):
Ilmi Willbergh
Conference:
ECER 2009
Network:
27. Didactics - Learning and Teaching
Format:
Paper

Session Information

27 SES 08 C, Theoretical Aspects of Didactics, Learning and Teaching

Paper Session

Time:
2009-09-30
08:30-10:00
Room:
NIG, HS 2H
Chair:
Andreja Istenic Starcic

Contribution

This paper will present some of the results from my Doctoral thesis ”Mimesis, Didaktik and digital media” (Willbergh, 2008). German Didaktik is a hermeneutic discipline. In a practical teaching context, this means that the teacher must interpret what significance the content expressed in the Lehrplan (Bildungsinhalt) can mean to my pupils (Bildungsgehalt) (Klafki, 2000). The meaning of the content is not a given fact. It is a matter of interpretation. The teacher´s interpretive work starts with planning the lesson, and goes on in the classroom. When it comes to creating meaning, what actually is expressed in the classroom, is the most important situation. Because it is when teaching is happening; here and now, that what is meaningful to the pupils, is revealed. In my thesis, I compared the Greek concept of mimesis, with German Didaktik theory. I found several similarities between the two forms of meaning-making in Didaktik and Poetics (Aristotle et al., 1995). The ‘as if’ of teaching; is how meaning is created here and now in the classroom. In this paper, I will present the temporal and spacial similarities between the meaning making process in teaching and poetics, and explain the contribution that the concept of mimetic Didaktik can make to the field of Didaktik theory. Ricoeurs theory of threefold mimesis in Time and Narrative (1984) will be used to establish this argument (Ricoeur, 1984).

Method

The method of the thesis is hermeneutic discussion and comparison of the meaning of concepts, theories and texts. It’s sources are philosophic texts on the concept of mimesis, Didaktik theory (German Allgemeine Didaktik) and relevant concepts on digital media. The theoretical basis of mimetic Didaktik is the Aristotelian-Ricoeurian concept of mimesis, Didaktik Analysis by Wolfgang Klafki and media esthetics in the tradition of Marshall McLuhan (McLuhan, 2001).

Expected Outcomes

The results from the thesis will be presented in the paper, as described above.

References

Aristotle, Demetrius, Pseudo-Longinus, Halliwell, S., Russell, D. A., & Innes, D. (1995). Poetics. Edited and translated by Stephen Halliwell. On the sublime / Longinus ; translation by W.H. Fyfe ; revisedby Donald Russell. On style / Demetrius ; edited and translated by Doreen C. Innes based on W. Rhys Roberts. - [New ed.]. (S. Halliwell, D. A. Russell & D. Innes, Trans.). Cambridge, Massachusetts/London, England: Harvard University Press. Bollnow, O. F. (1976). Eksistensfilosofi og pedagogikk. Med et forord av Boje Katzenelson (R. Myhre, Trans.). København/Oslo: Christian Ejlers forlag. Hopmann, S. T. (2007). Restrained teaching: The common core of Didaktik. EERJ, 3. Klafki, W. (2000). Didaktik analysis as the core of preparation of instruction. In I. Westbury, S. Hopmann & K. Riquarts (Eds.), Teaching as a reflective practice. The german didaktik tradition (pp. 139-159). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. McLuhan, M. (2001). Understanding media : the extensions of man London: Routledge. Menck, P. (2000). Content: Still in question. In I. Westbury, S. Hopmann & K. Riquarts (Eds.), Teaching as a reflective practice. The german didaktik tradition (pp. 177-193). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Ricoeur, P. (1984). Time and narrative (K. a. D. P. Blamey, Trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Schwab, J. J. (1971). The practical: Arts of eclectic. School Review, 79(4), 493-542. Wagenschein, M. (2000). Teaching to understand: On the concept of the Exemplary in Teaching. In I. Westbury, S. Hopmann & K. Riquarts (Eds.), Teaching as a reflective practice. The german didaktik tradition. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Walton, K. L. (1990). Mimesis as make-believe. On the foundations of the representational arts. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Willbergh, I. (2008). Mimesis, didaktikk og digitale læremidler. Trondheim: Phd-avhandling i pedagogikk, NTNU.

Author Information

Ilmi Willbergh
University of Agder
Faculty of Humanities and Education, Department of Education
Kristiansand
158

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