Editorial

Abstract

Dear readers,

a special double issue of the e-journal is devoted entirely to selected research papers presented at the international conference on Power in Education, Art and Sport (held in 2014) which took place at the Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague. At this annual meeting, not only European but also American participants discuss together important aspects of education in the current and changing world.

Andrea Fleischerová’s paper presents a neglected scholar Johann Valentin Andreas and his philosophical and pedagogical efforts with deep philosophical (especially Plato) tradition and a wide range of motifs that appear in modern period of religio-philosophical thinking about pedagogy and human being.

Zdeněk Helus tries to change the current theory of pedagogy by its turn at the human level which is still the source and goal of the educational movement. Away from the mere technical focus, the experienced and personal component is to be affected and developed. A pupil should be continuously led to the ability to exceed himself in the educational movement.

Anna Hogenová shows a remarkable way that metaphysical context of half-seen images of the reality is a demonstration of a higher-order cave in which everything we can imagine is always considered to be real. Human self-reflection, however, could not reach on the merits but only the subject. In other words, self-reflection is oriented to the sameness. Thus, presence is always overlooked and becomes a mere identity of form allowing usurping the sameness as such but not tending to the whole. Privation is not a logical predicate but it makes things themselves to show. Fortunately, current officers and managers do not know this and it is very important that the paper discusses this topic.

Naděžda Pelcová in her paper realizes what today’s didactical engineering is almost blind – education is not a matter of raised production that happens in the space of helplessness expressible in aporia: to force unfree human being to be free. Abilities are not things we can just pass. It is only possible to bring them and the sine qua non of it is togetherness and residing at things in common. This is the answer to all attempts to dispense with teachers in education.

David Rybák expresses the inner relationship between philosophy and institutionalization effects of school which, in traditional sharing a sense, means a form of forgetness.

Dariusz Stępkowski focuses on process connections of pedagogical activity and its limits. Furthermore, he discusses various models of these connections mainly observing eventualities how to achieve self-improvement.

Zuzana Svobodová observes the thought of transcendence to the Other that establishes the possibility of dialogue not unilaterally as a linear process. The dialogue itself is this transcendence. The connection within the philosophical tradition from Plato to Levinas’ thinking of transcendence is outstanding.

Linney Wix describes the terrifying end of the European dream of progress. The author also depicts a specific story in which humanity survives despite the inner connection of administrative apparatus changing everything on the subject. It is a big question whether or not this connection is an archetype of a higher-order cave in which today’s global humanity is built in.

A list of conferences organized in the past:

2014 – Power in Education, Art and Sport
2013 – Time in Education, Art and Sport
2012 – Telos in Education, Art and Sport
2011 – Dialogue in Education, Art and Sport
2010 – The Symbol in Education, Art and Sport
2009 – Imagination in Education, Art and Sport
2008 – Ethos in Education, Art and Sport
2007 – Values in Education, Art and Sport
2006 – Violence in Education, Art and Sport
2005 – The Movement of Education in Education, Art and Sport
2004 – Pragma as Creative Human Act in Education, Art and Sport
2003 – Responsibility in Education, Art and Sport
2002 – Areas of Understanding in Education, Art and Sport

In 2015, a conference on Justice in Education, Art and Sport is organized.