The presentation consists of two parts:
In the first part the "mechanism in the art of educating" (as Kant put it) will be demonstrated in the form of four specific triangles: the evolutionary triangle (nature-consciousness-culture/society), the ontogenetic triangle (baby - significant other - things), the didactic triangle (pupil - teacher - topic) and, as a kind of summary the classical form calculus (causa finalis=topic - causa materialis=child - causa efficiens= educator). These four can be regarded as the "Bermuda-triangles of education" because education seems to disappear within each of the three given components and therefore educational theory has to bring them to reappear as a specific anthropological phenomenon and communicative practice.

The second part will then demonstrate that these triangles however can only be realized if five specific conditions are fulfilled: the bodily basis, affect and emotion, special educational time and space and last but not least: social-structural conditions.
Taking this operative basis of education into consideration it will then be clear that philosophy-of-education has to play an important role in contemporary educational theory and functions as a kind of specific reflection-knowledge which enables  to keep in mind what tends to fall apart in the process of what is nowadays called evidence-based educational research.

The chair will start the discussion with a formal reply before opening it up to the audience.