From Fiction to Friction: Towards an Ethics of Hermeneutics in Parent Counselling

Autor/in	Van den Berge, Luc
Titel	From Fiction to Friction: Towards an Ethics of Hermeneutics in Parent Counselling
Quelle	In: Ethics and Education, 11 (2016) 3, S.259-273 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Van den Berge, Luc)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-9642
DOI	10.1080/17449642.2016.1242041
Schlagwörter	Hermeneutics; Parents; Social Influences; Parenting Skills; Ethics; Child Rearing; Parent Counseling + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hermeneutik; Eltern; Sozialer Einfluss; Ethik; Kindererziehung; Parent counselling; Elternberatung
Abstract	There seems to be an overall agreement that parents "qua parents" are, almost by definition, in need of support and hence that there is always a "parental deficit". In order to help parents out many initiatives are taken, predominantly drawing from a technical conception of parenting. This particular conception defines the deficit as a shortage of practical and theoretical knowledge, and conceives of the predicament of parenting or upbringing as something that can be successfully dealt with. Two criticisms are developed in this article. First, this conception of parenting (support) is exposed as a "frictionless fiction" that makes a very strong appeal to many of us, inhabitants of late modern Western societies, perhaps because it promises answers where there are none to be given. Second, a different conception of the parental deficit is developed following Ramaekers and Suissa who spelled out a parental hermeneutical-existential deficit drawing upon Cavell. This specific kind of deficit picks out another kind of support. I develop this alternative by sketching a "figure of strong engagement" that provides parent support. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01