HERMENEUTIC PEDAGOGY: GENESIS OF A NEW PEDAGOGICAL DIRECTION IN GERMAN TRADITION (Pedagogika hermeneutyczna. Geneza kierunku w tradycji niemieckiej)

This article presents the genesis of hermeneutic pedagogy in German tradition. It was connected with the development of hermeneutics-oriented pedagogy in the form of German humanist pedagogy. This pedagogy already gained hermeneutic disposition in the first half of the 20th century. This gave rise to the emergence of hermeneutic pedagogy (hermeneutische Pädagogik) in the 50ties of the 20th century (W. Flitner, E. Weniger, O.F. Bollnow), and after another two decades – of pedagogic hermeneutics (pädagogische Hermeneutik). Hermeneutic pedagogy can be perceived as a methodological orientation the object of which is to determine the method, specific character and conditions of investigating the educational reality and as a theory of hermeneutical foundations of education.