A Pedagogical Perspective on Motherliness

Translation (2008): Moderlikheid: Gesien in Pedagogiese Perspektief. University Publishers and Booksellers: Stellenbosch, 1971. Pp. 1-79.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE: A PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON MOTHERLINESS
1. Introduction
2. The scientific questions
3. The phenomenological way
4. Motherhood in contrast to motherliness
5. Statement of the problem

CHAPTER TWO: THE PEDAGOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BIRTH-EVENT
1. Introduction
2. The birth-event as an act of acceptance
3. Birth as constitutive of individuality
4. Birth as constituting a face-to-face relationship

CHAPTER THREE: THE PEDAGOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MOTHERLINESS IN CONTRAST TO MOTHERHOOD
1. Introduction
2. Motherliness as a caring being-in-the-world
3. The motherly caress
4. The motherly look
5. Motherly listening-to
6. Motherly addressing
7. Conclusion

CHAPTER FOUR: RESPONSIBILITY: IN THE PEDAGOGICAL SITUATION WITH MOTHER
1. Introduction
2. An essence-analysis of the educative situation
3. Motherliness and the educative aim
4. Conclusion

APPENDIX: ESSENCES OF THE REALITY OF EDUCATING (added by translator)