This book makes available for the first time in English Klaus Holzkamp’s ground-breaking book on learning Lernen: Subjektwissenschaftliche Grundlegung. It offers fresh perspectives for today’s international debates about how to re-imagine learning and education for future society. Current debates in psychology, educational sciences as well educational politics go beyond the transmission model of education and the traditional short-cut between teaching and learning and are oriented either toward student-centred learning or world-centred education. Holzkamp’s book is the first to systematically bridge these approaches and offer a rigorous subject- and world-centred theory of learning.

Divided into 2 volumes, this book presents the first half of the original in which Holzkamp outlines his psychological theory of learning; the need for this understanding within education and how it differs from conventional behaviourist, cognitivist and action-theory-based learning models. This book will appeal to students, psychologists and practitioners with an interest in educational psychology, critical psychology and educational science.

​Klaus Holzkamp (1927-1995) was Professor of Psychology at the Free University Berlin, Germany. As the founder of German Critical Psychology his body of work is engaged in the fundamental renewal of psychological theory, methodology, and research practice.