ABSTRACT
This chapter promotes the concept of caring confrontation as a pedagogy suitable for educating the being mode of students. This involves reflecting back to others, their own understandings and views. It is likened to holding a mirror to others in order that they can better see their own reflections. As a pedagogical encounter involving some confrontation, this must always be based upon care for the students. There are some similarities with this and with Biesta’s pedagogy of interruption and so a review of his approach is included in this chapter, which then explores some differences between the two. The pedagogy of caring confrontation is founded in existentialism and so some engagement with indirect communication is made. The main purpose of this pedagogical approach is to enable students to grow in interests and to become more democratic as a way-of-being.
