Arturo G. Rillo

The Pedagogical Question as Quest in Learning

When the pedagogical discourse is analyzed from the philosophical hermeneutics, the dialectic of question and answer acquires diverse senses related to the mode of learning. For this reason, the study was carried out with the purpose of analyzing the meaning, structure and fusion of horizons of the pedagogical question as a quest process during the students learning. Initially, a horizon of understanding was constructed through the coordinates proposed by Heidegger (point of view, direction of the gaze and horizon of sight), and the constructivist educational tradition. The pedagogical question as an expression of a quest reveals learning by appearance while asking about what we know in advance. On the other hand, the question anticipates the response, gives meaning to the receptive learning guided by imitation and, finally, when the answer to the question is accessible to the understanding, the student is situated in front of the learning by unconcealment and appropriation of the true knowledge. It is concluded that the construction of learning through the question as a quest, is linked to hermeneutical pre-comprehension as it reveals the situation of the student in the world of life.