RADICAL PRESENT AND REFLEXIVE CONNECTIONS. DIDACTICAL APPROACHES TO ALIENATED SPACES

Abstract

Our starting position is the observation of disappearing public spaces and due to that an increasing alienation in social structures (the global pandemic situation having accelerated this). From two different fields of pedagogy (philosophy of education and performative arts) we aim to set up didactical approaches that give a counterbalance to those tendencies. Especially growing possibilities and challenges of digital formats lead us to a pedagogy of the “Radical Present“. On the basis of our previous theoretical research and practical work in schools and workshops we want to discuss and apply concepts and methods of “Reflexive Connections“ and „Whole-Body-Performances“ as ways of initiating experiences in pedagogical settings. Anyone who shares the interest of finding ways of connection as a joint democratic idea is welcome to participate e.g. teachers, graduate students, masters or doctoral students, researchers and others (8-12).