The form of pedagogical thinking and acting and the experience of the paradoxicality of (self)education

Abstract

The object of research interest in the presented article is the form of pedagogical thinking and acting due to its connection with (self)education understood as an autonomous and personal-creative action of the addressee of educational interactions. By applying the philosophical-hermeneutic method of textual analysis and the model of the paradoxical structure of experience developed in existential philosophy of education, the authors have problematized three pairs of paradoxes that characterise pedagogical thinking and acting based on the affirmation of (self)education as an experience of existential paradoxicality.