Bildung revisited: the development of a new conceptual framework of Bildung starting from Charles Taylor’s philosophical anthropology KU Leuven
The last decades our higher educational system has known some notable tendencies: growing specialization, functional reduction and dominance of instrumental reason. These evolutions risk to neglect an important aspect in its pedagogical mission which is traditionally linked to Bildung, the development of pupils and students as integral persons. Yet several stakeholders in education feel the need of rearticulating this important ...