The incidence of Wilhelm Dilthey's German historicism in research on higher education

Abstract

The historicist thought of Dilthey's German philosophy represents a relevant background for various ideas proposed about the educational process. The knowledge of the social and cultural environment of the time and the understanding of the real historical world of the institution and of those who live it daily, are elements present in the works that appeared since the beginning of the 19th century, and that have coexisted and been intertwined. with the appearance of a hotbed of ideas, approaches, methods, possibilities and suggestions for the construction and interpretation of university realities or of the people who participate in it, becoming evident the need to investigate peculiar forms of construction of the science of man and of their knowledge. Both historicism and historical sciences, at least in part, began with the initiative of translating and investigating the knowledge that man has about his own historical reality.