Vernetzen – Vernetzung – Netzwerk

Grundlegende Überlegungen zu einem komplexen Phänomen

Abstract

The article approaches the complex phenomenon of networking in a fundamental way and examines the conditions and implications of networking. Linguistic metaphorical considerations are used as well as phenomenological investigations into perspectivity and the lifeworld. Networking refers to deficient conditions whose analysis offers new

insights into the prerequisites and possibilities of networking. One of these conditions is the representational, identifying thinking of everyday and specialised language. Alternative ways of thinking are explained and implications for a ‘networked’ approach to the world are explored, which lie in an involved ‘co-understanding’ that recognises the relationships and can also reveal new perspectives for teaching Sachunterricht.