Pedagogical tact: Designing an ecological approach for teacher education
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Pedagogical tact, Teacher education, Philosophy of Education, phenomenology of practice, vignetteAbstract
This article examines pedagogical tact as a philosophical concept central to contemporary teacher education, arguing for its reinterpretation within an ecological and phenomenological framework. Drawing on the continental tradition from Herbart and Schleiermacher to van Manen, the paper reconstructs pedagogical tact as an embodied, situational, and ethically charged mode of practical knowing that resists procedural codification. Building on Friesen’s reconfiguration of tact through the pedagogical triangle, the analysis moves beyond a purely dyadic understanding of pedagogical relations and foregrounds the mediating role of educational content and environments. Through critical engagement with phenomenology of practice and recent debates in educational philosophy, the article proposes pedagogical tact as an ecological principle of mediation, immanent to lived educational situations. This perspective highlights the relevance of tact for teacher professionalization in contexts shaped by standardization and technocratic rationalities, offering a non-instrumental pathway for reconnecting educational theory, practice, and world-centred responsibility.References
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