Workshop 2: The Fields of Study in Didactics

Definition of Didactics:

Didactics can be considered as a way to guide in effective way students, through teaching methods and processes. It involves coordinating techniques to help students coexist and act independently, through activities instructed by the teacher. This “term” has evolved throughout the years from a model based on interrogation and mind training (S. Augustin) to a more educationally integrated method involving the teacher in constructing, or better yet, “spiritual development” (Herbart). In other words, it can be considered as the art of teaching.

Domains:

Didactics is involved in teaching-learning institutions, supported by others like Psychology, Sociology, or Cultural Anthropology that have their main focus on education. These elements focus on the teacher as a transmitter, who selects and chooses the best characteristics to answer the question of how to teach and how it must be taught. The concepts are applied as a method to transform through reflexive thinking the traditional concept of curriculum. Above all, it’s a way to transform and adapt to the changes provoked throughout the years. This serves as a mold, whereas the curriculum is changing constantly and adapting to the social characteristics necessary to surpass obstacles and modify teaching groups into critical communities through Teaching- Learning Process.