- 著者
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丸山 恭司
- 出版者
- 教育哲学会
- 雑誌
- 教育哲学研究 (ISSN:03873153)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.2001, no.84, pp.38-53, 2001-11-10 (Released:2010-05-07)
- 参考文献数
- 26
Teaching is somehow a difficult activity. Teacher's voice does not always reach learners. They may misunderstand or even not understand their teacher at all.The purpose of this paper is to explicate the logical, structural origin of the difficulty of teaching and to show that the difficulty is not always caused by insufficient abilities of individual teachers. I argue that 'otherness' and 'transcendency' as properties of teaching bring about the difficulty of teaching, but also that, since they are implied in teaching logically, the difficulty is unavoidable.First, I criticize a tendency of applying the general theory of the Other to education because the general theory overlooks the nature of otherness in education. The other in education is better characterized in terms of a stranger rather than of an absolute Other who cannot be comprehended. Because of the qualitative difference between teacher and learner with regard to what is to be taught, the teacher turns out to be the other as a stranger to the learner and vice versa. This qualitative difference is essential to teaching. Without the difference, teaching would turn into telling. Then, by examining the use of the word 'tranzendental' in Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus, I show that the transcendency of the unsayable, or the impossibility of its access through language, is also essential to teaching.Failure in teaching occurs in spite of any effort by teachers because otherness and transcendency are logically implied in teaching. It is an ethical stance of teachers, thus, to be involved in teaching after recognizing the logical inevitability of the difficulty of teaching.