<因果プラン>論からみた教育目的の機能

N.ルーマンのシステム理論を中心として

抄録

This paper focuses on the German Sociologist N. Luhmann and offers one possibility of the theoretical problem structure in relation to the purpose of education. Luhmann, already in his early research, while not seeking a quality of objective 'truth' in causality explanations, but rather supposing that they do not possess such a quality, presents a theoretical stance which permits questioning the hypothetical, doubtful connection and the function of the purpose attached to it. The purpose of this paper is to apply this to pedagogial discussion by making use of the concept of the 'causality plan'.
Here, it will be confirmed that the transformation of the other, in spite of following a non-causal process, in the educational activity, must apply a subjective causal hypothesis (causal plan), and in addition, that the purpose by which this is chosen as a prerequisite, works by applying the strategy of a 'reducation of complexity'. Furthermore, it is confirmed that this way of thinking is characterized by a 'decentralization of purpose argumentation', quite alien to the tradition of German pedagogy.