Die Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zur Begründung einer pädagogischen Theorie der Verständigung in modernen Gesellschaften. Sie entfaltet ihre historischen und systematischen Überlegungen in zwei Teilen: Im ersten Teil wird die Erziehungskonzeption von J.-J. Rousseau analysiert. Vor dem Hintergrund seiner biografischen Entwicklung (Kapitel 1) und der Analyse des "Gesellschaftsvertrages" (Kapitel 2), wird in Kapitel 3 Rousseaus Erziehungstheorie dargestellt. Deren Besonderheit liegt darin, das Spannungsverhältnis von Ontogenese und Bildungsgenese zum Drehpunkt des Erziehungsvertrages gemacht zu haben. Dies ermöglichte ihm, ein Stufenkonzept der entwicklungsangemessenen Formen der Subjektförderung zu begründen; nämlich: Fürsorge und natürliche Elementarerziehung; negative Erziehung; sokratischer Dialog und Handwerkserziehung; natürliche Moralerziehung; Erziehung zur Geschlechtsidentität. Der Beitrag Rousseaus zu einer Theorie der pädagogischen Verständigung erschließt sich allerdings erst im textrekonstruktiven Verfahren mit folgenden Stufen: Explikation des Vorverständnisses der Interpretin; argumentativer Nachvollzug des Textes; Herausarbeitung immanenter Widersprüchlichkeiten, die aus der naturrechtlichen Verankerung dieser Erziehungskonzeption resultieren; Aufhebung der bleibenden konzeptionellen Momente in einer pädagogischen Verständigungstheorie. Der zweite Teil beschäftigt sich mit den aktuellen Diskussionen zur Subjektentwicklung in der "zweiten Moderne". Dazu wird in Kapitel 4 die Theorieentwicklung der Kritischen Psychologie und ihre Beziehungen zur Psychoanalyse und zur Phänomenologie analysiert, zentrale systematische Widersprüche herausgearbeitet und jene Theorieelemente identifiziert, die in einem pädagogisch relevanten intersubjektiven Verständigungskonzept aufzuheben sind. Im abschließenden Kapitel 5 werden die gewonnenen begrifflichen Ergebnisse angewendet auf die Analyse der Bedingungen und Verlaufsformen der alltäglichen Lebensführung in der reflexiv gewordenen Moderne.

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Design fixation is a phenomenon experienced by professional designers and engineering design students that stifles creativity and innovation through discouraging ideational productivity, fluency and diversity. During the design idea and concept generation phase of the design process, a reliance on perceptual surface feature similarities between design artefacts increases the likelihood of design fixation leading to design duplication. Psychologists, educators and designers have become increasingly interested in creative idea generation processes that encourage innovation and entrepreneurial outcomes. However, there is a notable lack of collaborative research between psychology, education and engineering design particularly on inductive reasoning of undergraduate engineering students in higher education. The data gathered and analysed for this study provides an insight into property inference decision-making preferences and decision switching (SWITCH) patterns of engineering undergraduates under similarity-based inductive judgements [SIM] and category-based inductive judgements [CAT]. For this psychology experiment, property induction tasks were devised using abstract shapes in a triad configuration. Participants (N = 180), on an undergraduate engineering programme in London, observed a triad of shapes with a target shape more similar-looking to one of two given shapes. Factors manipulated for this experiment included category alignment, category group, property type and target shape. Despite the cognitive development and maturation stage of undergraduate engineers (adults) in higher education, this study identified similarity-based inductive judgements [SIM] to play a significant role during inductive reasoning relative to the strength of category-based inductive judgements [CAT]. In addition to revealing the property inference decision-making preferences of a sample of undergraduate engineers (N = 180), two types of switch classification and two types of non-switch classification (SWITCH) were found and named SIM_NCC, SIM-Salient, Reverse_CAT and CAT_Switching. These different classifications for property inference switching and non-switching presented a more complex pattern of decision-making driven by the relative strength between similarity-based inductive judgements [SIM] and category-based inductive judgements [CAT]. The conditions that encouraged CAT_Switching is of particular interest to design because it corresponds to inference decision switching that affirms the sharing of properties between dissimilar-looking shapes designated as category members, i.e., in a conflicting category alignment condition (CoC). For CAT_Switching, this study found a significant interaction between a particular set of conditions that significantly increased the likelihood of property inference decisions switching to affirm the sharing of properties between dissimilar-looking shapes. Stimuli conditions that combined a conflicting category alignment condition (where dissimilar-looking shapes belong to the same category) with category specificity, a causal property and a target shape with merged (or blended) perceptual surface features significantly increased the likelihood of a property inference decision switching. CAT_Switching has important implications for greater ideational productivity, fluency and diversity to discourage design fixation within the conceptual design space. CAT_Switching conditions could encourage more creative design transformations with alternative design functions through inductive inferences that generalise between dissimilar artefact designs. The findings from this study led to proposing a Cartesian view of the concept design space to represent the possibilities for greater movements through flexible and expanding category boundaries to encourage conceptual combinations, greater ideational fluency and greater ideational diversity within a configuration design space. This study has also created a platform for further research into property inference decision-making, ideational diversity and category boundary flexibility under stimuli conditions that encourage designers and design students to make inductive generalisations between dissimilar domains of knowledge through a greater emphasis on causal relations and semantic networks.