One of the most fundamental and meaningful statements that can be made about the human being, is that man is always in a certain relationship towards his fellow-man and the objects in his livingenvironment. With this statement as vantage-point it has been attempted to study the realization of the pedagogical relationships in psychopedagogical perspective and to analyse the becoming of the child within these relationships, against the background of the categories experiencing-willing-experience as becoming. The child is a person-in-the-world of objects and people, and as fellow-being he finds homself in certain relationships, because man is intentional and ever involved. Psycho-pedagogics deals with the discovering of the psychological life of the child in education and also reveals becoming and learni~ as its equal basic structures. It has furthermore become clear that "becoming and learning" are actualised, inter alia, by means of "learningas- becoming., and "experiencing-as-becoming" and exist as prerequisite for the adequate realization of pedagogical relationships (trust, knowledge and authority). Furthermore, a psychopedagogical analysis has been made of educational procedures and subsequently the structures of the pedagogical situation has been dealt with. Special attention was given to the trust-understanding and authority relationships against the background of the child's becoming-actualising-forms, namely: "Emancipating as experiencing-willing and living-becoming", "Exploring- as-experiencing, willing and living-becoming", "Distantiating-as-experiencing, willing-and living-becoming", "Differentiating-as-experiencing, willing-and living-becoming" and "Objectivating- as-experiencing, willing-and living-becoming". Mention was made of the stability which must be present in the child's experience world, and that experience as well as the will in the child's becoming within pedagogical relationships, depend on the degree of rational execution of these relationships, in order to reach adequate actualisation. The adequate actualisation of the pedagogical relationships pre-shapes the child's later actions as adult in his relationship towards his fellow-man, It was also been attempted to consider pedagogically the development of the various pedagogical relationships in which the child finds himself against the background of his becoming, with particular emphasis on the pre-school years, the primary school phase and the secondary school phase, Subsequently certain psychopedagogical criteria for the evaluation of the child's becoming within the realized pedagogical relationship- structures were elucidated, The thesis concludes with various remarks regarding the recognition of deviation from pedagogical relationships and suggested remedial steps, / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 1976. / gm2014 / Early Childhood Education / Unrestricted