Die Bildsamkeit des Menschen

Eine interdisziplinäre Betrachtung von herbartianischer Pädagogik und islamtheologischen Bildungskonzepten

Abstract

This article examines the concept of human educability (Bildsamkeit ) as a key interface between Johann Friedrich Herbart’s pedagogy and Islamic theology of education from a religious educational perspective. Building on Herbart’s notion of educability as a foundational concept of pedagogy, it highlights conceptual correspondences in Islamic terms such as al-ta ʿlīm (instruction), al-tarbiya (education), and al-ta ʾdīb (moral formation). The Qur’an is interpreted as a dynamic educational process in which divine revelation, cognitive insight, and ethical self formation intersect. The study offers new perspectives for an interreligious pedagogy that conceives the human being as a subject of learning and moral growth, and education as a transformative process
of consciousness and character development.