The origins of modern pedagogy and its reverberation within the most recent education theories leads us backwards to German model, that articulates itself in two ways: as a set of pragmatic actions, derived from a series of social and cultural conditions, and as conceptual system, as long as it responds to a new conception of human freedom that came up in the beginning of modern thought. This paper intends to evaluate the imbrications between those two dimensions.
history of pedagogy; philosophy of education; neo-humanism; Bildung