Teaching How to Learn and Learning How to Teach

This essay takes offence at Holzkamp in order to honour him. Above all, the "teaching-learning short-circuit" he proposed and the question concerning emancipatory teaching left out by this concept are critically analysed. However, the critique follows Holzkamp in many details. The objects of critique are Holzkamp's use of language, his exemplary method, his way of dealing with reality, and the determination of subjects/students. The critique offered is meant as a retrieving critique (aufhebende Kritik). On the assumption that Holzkamp's standpoint and perspective are similar to those of this critic, critique can keep Holzkamp's work alive, precisely by interrogating it. m series of doubts regarding Holzkamp's thought sharpens the critic's own procedure. In this respect, the study is nourished by his suggestions, particularly in those places where it rejects them.