Erziehen heisst Verstehen lehren

One school reform follows another. But where does pedagogy fit into all these reforms? Andreas Gruschka examines the school reforms initiated after the PISA storm in light of pedagogical claims: He diagnoses an increasingly content-free focus on competencies and a didactic approach that has become purely self-serving. In contrast, he proposes a way for educational instruction to fulfill its pedagogical responsibility again – in the form of a progressive understanding: For understanding is not mere data reproduction, but the result of one's own problem-aware reflection, fueled by curiosity. This second edition of the successful book has been completely revised and supplemented with new sections.