Heidegger's Hermeneutic Method in Tertiary Education

TIERTIARY WRITING NETWORK (TWN) - WRITING THE FUTURE: BIENNIAL COLLOQUIUM, Strongman Luke, Kobeleva Polly, eds., Wellington, New Zealand, December 2-3, 2010

16 Pages Posted: 25 Dec 2011 Last revised: 28 Dec 2011

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Robert Keith Shaw

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS)

Date Written: December 25, 2011

Abstract

Heidegger’s hermeneutic method and his account of pedagogy are useful in teaching students how to think and write. This paper interprets the method of thinking which Martin Heidegger taught to his students and indicates strategies that have been used to introduce that method to New Zealand students in an online course. The method appears to philosophers as a technique of conceptual analysis, although Heidegger may not have agreed with that characterisation or its use in this way. To tertiary teachers it is one framework that they may use to teach a strategy and techniques under the rubric of critical thinking. The use of the method of procedure proposed is well within the capabilities of teachers in practical subjects such as business, management, medicine and law. Students in the author’s business analysis course say that a hermeneutic strategy forces them to struggle, but ultimately they report satisfaction at their increased abilities and believe that they have gained something efficacious.

Keywords: pedagogy, Heidegger, hermenutics, teaching, management, business, questioning

Suggested Citation

Shaw, Robert Keith, Heidegger's Hermeneutic Method in Tertiary Education (December 25, 2011). TIERTIARY WRITING NETWORK (TWN) - WRITING THE FUTURE: BIENNIAL COLLOQUIUM, Strongman Luke, Kobeleva Polly, eds., Wellington, New Zealand, December 2-3, 2010 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1976757 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1976757

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