RESEARCHING THE UNCOMMON IN EDUCATION

Gregory Bateson's Example

Abstract

The methodology to construct scientific knowledge is based on the concept of approximation to reality with constantly growing accuracy. From a scientific point of view, reality has already been more or less comprehended and understood. Developmental pedagogy and psychology already know more or less what is a child or a teenager. An alternative to this might as well be provided by theory and art, more especially by the possibilities that they present "to look at reality from the standpoint of the new". This idea shall be explicated more concretely through Gregory Bateson's thought and his theoretical concept of learning - and then applied to an innovative form of educational practice.