Gadamer’s Account of Art and its Implication for Teaching

This study was conducted to explain art from Gadamer’s perspective and its implications forteaching. The methodology used for this qualitative research was deductive-analytical. In this study,Gadamer s notion of understanding and its prerequisites were first expressed. Then, it was tried toexamine his account of art and its role, from among different prerequisites. Since most teachingmethods are inspired by the quantitative and empirical sciences, the teaching methods are limitedto the transfer of specific and predictable subjects. According to Gadamer, this type of teaching isnot consistent with human nature and his mechanism of learning. To get out of this problem,Gadamer s example of tragedy in the art which complements the other elements of understandingwas used. Basically, artistic experience goes beyond the realm of systematic knowledge. Hedepicted it as a work of art, like novel or film; so that he showed how in a novel (good), the hero(heroine) of tragedy achieves a certain fate, away from inhibiting the spectators or guiding them.Like drama, escaping the inhibition is the main basis for teaching the ideals. Like the art, teaching isa process in which the horizons of teacher and student are mingled, away from inhibiting eachother; and a result beyond three above-mentioned horizons is achieved. The exercise of control byeach of them makes understanding and learning difficult. This type of teaching was displayed in theform of a diagram.

کلیدواژه ها:

Art ، Tragedy ، Hans-Georg Gadamer ، Teaching Method