Habermas, Honneth and Education

Rauno Huttunen writes on the importance of
Jrgen Habermas's and Axel Honneth's critical theories to
educational research and critical pedagogy. He examines
significance to the theory of indoctrination and action
research. In the course Huttunen introduce his theory of
communicative teaching. While Habermas is concentrating on
cognitive elements of individual and socio-historical
learning processes, Honneth in his theory of Struggle for
recognition is putting emphasis the the notions of care,
love and respect. Huttunen applies Honneth's theory of
recognition to educational narrative research and critical
adult education. "Rauno Huttunen shows that he knows the
research tradition, and has a very solid theoretical
background... The over all project is clear, the
contribution important, and findings help to advance the
tradition of Critical Theory... Huttunen has mastered the
craft of research at all level, from the design to the
scientific proof, from the theory and method to the
bibliographical critical analysis of the material." Dr.
Carlos Alberto Torres Professor of Social Sciences and
Comparative Education University of California, Los Angeles