Pedagogical relation

It has been discussed more recently in English by Max van Manen, Norm Friesen, Tone Saevi and others..

In the pedagogical relation, adult and child encounter each other in ways that are different from other relationships (e.g., friendship) In a text from 1933, educationist Herman Nohl describes the pedagogical relation as a relationship between a particular stance of the educator in relationship to the one being educated (educand): This basic stance … is decisively characterized by the fact that its perspective is unconditionally that of the educand.

This means that its task is not to draw the child towards … specific, predetermined, objective goals that it might see … [in] the state, the church, the law, the economy, and also not of a [political] party or worldview.

Instead, it sees its goal in the subject and his/her physical and personal realization or unfolding (körperlich-geistige Entfaltung).

(p. 152) The pedagogical relation, finally, has as its interest not necessarily the "success" of the student, but rather their "subjectivation"--their becoming a subject, a person, something that is to be pursued as an end in itself.