Author V. Halder

Even today, there are several competing and fundamentally different approaches to the interpretation of the “autopoiesis concept” in pedagogics; and quite often it remains unclear by what a specific interpretation is characterized and from which other actually existing position it distinguishes itself. Therefore, it is the author’s aim to differentiate between and analyze different interpretations of this concept – namely, the technological, the irritated, the humanist, and the meta-theoretical interpretation. This analysis is followed by a plea for a continued controversial approach to systems theory.