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The aim of the course is first of all to practise in a new way what we already know: reading. Reading is not simply an everyday necessity, reading is also a scientific skill. As such, reading requires certain prerequisites and also "rules". In the seminar, these will be worked out, tested, reflected on, adapted and made fruitful for the specific academic context. For this purpose, we also use excerpts from the helpful UTB booklet "Reading and Writing" by Otto Kruse.

The Prosseminar "Basic Reading" focuses on basic texts in education and social sciences. As such, not only a number of different historical and current key texts, but also different types of texts come into question. What is considered a basic text of a subject area depends not least on the place from which and the perspective with which we want to open up a scientific field, in this case the field of education and educational science. As an introduction to the work, the joint (thoroughly critical) reading of "Bildung. Ein Essay" (2009) by Hartmut von Hentig is suggested as an introduction

How do we want to work? Guided text reading - processing of what has been read - resonance work, impact analysis, history of reception - contextualisation of the text in terms of social and disciplinary history - determination and assessment of the type of text: essay - discussion of the relationship between criticism and practice, between interest and knowledge of the subject, between AUTHOR and TEXT. The latter is particularly important in von Hentig's case. 

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Please obtain for the beginning (also available from second-hand bookshops): Hartmut von Hentig, Bildung. Ein Essay, Beltz Taschebuch, 2009.