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MARTIN BUBER
 Martin Mordechai Buber was born on February
8,1878 in Vienna,  Austria. 

 When he was three, his mother deserted him


and his paternal grand parents raised him in
Lemberg  until the age of 14.

 He is best known for his book 1923 ,Ich and Du


(I And thou),  which distinguishes between "I
and thou "and " I and it " modes of existence. 

MARTIN BUBER  After I and thou,  martin is best known for his
translation of the Hebrew Bible into German. 

1878-1965.  In collaboration with Franzrosenzweig, he


wrote numerous religious and biblical studies. 
 He defines man as the being who faces on "other " and constructs a
world from the dual acts of distancing and relating.

 He  stated that " living means addressed " - the quality of interaction
between people is the most important thing in being human. 

 Martin's theme - engage in dialogue with each other, with World,  with
god. 

 The goal is to study the wholeness of man. As a anthropologist he wants


to observe and investigate human life and experience as it is lived. 

 The origin of martin is always lived experience which means something


personal, affective, unique, and embedded in a world, in history and in
sociality
TERMS

 ENCOUNTER  DIALOGUE

 CONCEPTS

 I AND THOU
CONCEPT
 I AND IT CONCEPT
ENCOUNTER:
Buber encounter has a significance beyond Co-presence and individual
growth.
The basic fact of the human existence was not the individual or the
collective  as such but 'man with man's.
When a human being turns to another as another, as a particular and
specific person to be addressed and tries to communicate with him through
Language or silence.
Sometimes takes place between then which is not found elsewhere in 
nature Buber called this meeting between men the sphere of the between. 
CONT…

Encounter is an event or situation in which relation occur. 


Once we have learned to live in relation to other to recognize the
possibilities of the space between us. 
He would have agreed with the nation that where there is no
encounter life is 'unreal'.
DIALOGUE:
 Martin Buber's Major theme - Human existence may be defined by the way
in which we engage in dialogue with each other, with the world and with
god. 
 Plato said that dialogue should be with teacher and students.
 Paulo Ferrari said that dialogue should be with teacher, student and society.
 But Martin Buber adding one more concept which called God – Thou, which
means proper intellectual dialogue between yourself or oneself with god
and oneself with other human.
which means dialogue between men and creator 
    dialogue between men and creation.
 He said that students should ask many questions to nature and other
people.
CONT…

 Knowledge develops when questions are asked to world and others.


 Education should aim for promoting dialogue between self, god, others.
 Relationship exists in the form of dialogue.
 In dialogue, a person is present to another, they are attentive and aware -
listening and waiting which  is essential action for student and teacher
relationship.
 A key factor in the creation of dialogical communities is educational and Buber
argues that dialogue should be the core of education. 
 The great influence of Buber on the theory and practice of education.
 A direct consequence is that the teacher should not only teach students to
master the world, but should also encourage them to perfect it. 
 The teacher provides students with the insight that their deeds exist in the
world but that the world also exist in their deeds.
CONCEPTS:
I AND THOU CONCEPT
I AND IT CONCEPT

I-THOU is a relationship of mutuality and reciprocity,


while I-IT is a relationship of separateness and detachment.

Buber explains that human beings may try to


convert the subject-to-subject relation to a
subject-to-object relation, or vice versa. This
concept comes from Buber's book named "Ich
Du". It was translated from German to English in
the year 1937.
I-IT CONCEPT: I-THOU CONCEPT:

 "It" refers to the world of  It describes how personal


experiences and sensation. dialogue can define the nature of
 It describes entities as discrete
reality.
objects drawn from a definite set.  According to Buber, human beings
 EXAMPLE:
are aware of each other as having
He, She (is objective) a unity of a being.
 "It" varies from individual to  They engage in dialogue involving
individual. each other's whole being rather
 "I" has different and distinct
like an isolated quality.
relationships with "It", because
there are many "its" in one's life.
THEORY OF LEARNING:

He explained learning skills and knowledge in his words.


 learning is exploration of relational world and rediscovery of
traditions and value by experiencing the changing world as it is.
Learning is the search for meaning.
Learning is acquired through dialogue. It can be done by query
and reply from both sides.
Language becomes a powerful means during meaning making
process.
A child learns to encounter the world by selection.
Figuring out the realities he/she encounter.
ROLE OF A TEACHER:

 Give freedom to the learner.


 Learner must encounter the world.
 Teacher must deepen the self awareness of
the learner.
 Learning is critical refection and personal
selection.
THANK YOU!

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