Abstract (eng)
In recent years, the term "Aneignung" (loosely defined as: appropriation) has been increasingly used by educators, social workers, and even urban planners as a substitute for education or learning in German-language discourse. Nevertheless, it is not always clear what is meant by it. The most frequently cited concept was developed by Ulrich Deinet and defines Aneignung as the self-acting engagement with the environment, whereby Aneignung is described as an essential human developmental mechanism. This master's thesis points out that this concept lacks a theoretical foundation, especially with regard to the concrete, subject-related process of Aneignung; and undertakes a renewal and development of this foundation with the help of the enactive approach to cognition, which can be traced back to Varela, Thompson & Rosch. For this, enactive key concepts such as autonomy and sense-making are introduced and integrated in the concept of Aneignung to explain properties of Aneignung. As a consequence, an enactive perspective on the process of Aneignung can be elaborated: Activities of Aneignung are now understood as activities of sense-making in which the individual is engaged as an autonomous system for self-sustaining. Through sense-making and structural couplings with the environment, Aneignung for the individual is also development. Other aspects of Aneignung are explored using enactive concepts and formulated into 8 propositions. An active approach to Aneignung proves to be extremely helpful in order to better fathom and theoretically strengthen the concept of Aneignung, so that it can be applied more soundly in the multifaceted contexts between pedagogy, urban planning and social work. This work offers many starting points for further research, both theoretical and empirical.