ABSTRACT
To address concerns raised in regards to the 'student smart' class described at the outset of this book it was proposed that a combination of Klafki's didactical model and Lacan's didactical discourses could provide an analytic tool to understand teaching and learning strategies. Rhetoric emphasises the teacher's treatment of the subject of study, and the third side, experience (methods) refers to Bildung or formation (learning on the side of the student). Klafki's discussions regarding Bildung are considered, whilst catechetics (both forms) are traced back to its 'Greek' roots and rhetorics are considered in relation to authentic speech. Lacan's subject is, like Alcibiades, a 'legal subject' capable of speaking the truth, albeit belonging to the order of the symbolic which is 'unconscious'. Like Hegel, Klafki addresses the necessity to understand his two proposed approaches in terms of a dialectical relationship from which a third concept emerges which is individualism, which should be seen in a polar relationship with communality.
