There is a controversy regarding the relationship between theory and practice in the field of pedagogy with no final decision on how to model it. From our perspective, theories concerning educational science are especially promising if they face the challenges associated with diverse educational practices and their special circumstances. As the central task we consider the development of a notion of the explicit as well as of the tacit side of practices and of the necessity to reflect these two. Looking at educational practices is not reduced to the explicit decisions concerning aims, Subjects, schedules, social Settings, etc., in the diverse pedagogical fields. It also entails the examination of the inexplicable knowledge on which social relations are based. Aesthetical dimensions of education like sensual perceptions and time-space-object relations then are important frames of the practical orientation. Furthermore, corporal dispositions and influences of non-formal learning on formal learning situations are explored. The incidental scenery formed by these tacit factors might open and broaden, or it might also close and restrict the significant ways of teaching and learning; it might empower learners and teachers in understanding, transcending, and creating the world, or constrain them in doing this.

Anja Kraus, PhD, studied Educational Sciences, Philosophy and Arts Education in Berlin. From 2004 to 2013 she was Junior Professor for Educational Sciences at the Ludwigsburg University/Germany. Now, she is Associate Professor for Educational Sciences at the Linné-University Växjö/Sweden. Main research: pedagogical learning theories, physicalness in schools, integration of artistic positions into didactical concepts and into empirical teaching research, heterogeneity in schools and anthropological issues. Dr. phil. Anja Kraus, phil. mag., Studium Erziehungswissenschaft, Philosophie und Lehramt Kunst in Berlin. 2004-2013 Juniorprofessorin für Erziehungswissenschaft an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Ludwigsburg, seit 2013 Assoc. Prof. für Bildungswissenschaft an der Linnéuniversität Växjö/Sweden. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Pädagogische Lerntheorien, Körperlichkeit in der Schule, Integration von künstlerischen Positionen in didaktische Konzepte und in die empirische Unterrichtsforschung, Heterogenität in der Schule, anthropologische Fragen.

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