Unamuno’s Critique of Pedagogy as an Independent Discipline.

Abstract

In this study an attempt is made to reveal the six philosophical motives that led Unamuno away from formalist turn-of-the-century pedagogy in Spain. His critique, far from being ethereal, centred on the real problems of a discipline whose desire to be independent, quite justifiable at the end of the 19th century, was leading it to lose the ultimate meaning of its existence and reason for being. Proof of this can be found in the author’s warnings of pedagogical dangers such as (1) the annulment of personality, (2) the homogenization of society, and (3) the simplistic and artificial reduction of the world of life.

Keywords

• Education; Formalism; Mechanicism; Homogenization.