The development of didactic pedagogical thinking over the past 50 years
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The development of pedagogical thinking in the various part-disciplines of the faculty of education over the past 50 years: Didactic pedagogics. Mentz, H. C.
The development of didactic pedagogical thinking over the past 50 years
First phase
From the establishment of the
Department of Education (1912-1937)
According to Cronje
Teaching was seen as the accumulation
of knowledge without it really
contributing to a child's education.
The idea of material forming was very
prominent.
School important principles of
teaching had not been arrived at.
Knowledge was very
encyclopedic and it was based
mainly on the British and
American literature.
J. J. N. Kruger in his study of teaching
environmental geography
"The what and why of such teaching are
at the moment more important than the
how..."
Didactic is hardly mentioned in the researches.
Research of J. F. E. Havinga
He gradually would prescribe methods that
simultaneously make teaching history interesting and
successful.
There is a greater emphasis on
the didactic, still there is no
indication of a didactic structure.
Second phase
Establishment of the Faculty of Education (1937-1960's)
Didactics and the General History Education
B. F. Nael (head of the Department of Educational
Psychology and Sociology)
His ideal was to extend to the faculty the Wurzburg Shool of the
Psychology of Thought and its didactic application by the Amsterdam
school of Kohnstamm.
Oswald Kulpe
The psychology of thought
In contrast to the association psychology of Locke and
the presentation theory of Herbart, the essentials of
thinking indeed are imageless.
Conscious activity
Thought is actualized by a determining tendency that springs from the
thinking task.
Cologne School
Three levels of consciousness
Concrete-visual (individual images),
Schematic (ideas), Abstract level
(concepts) of thinking.
Mannheim School - Otto Selz
Emphasized that thinking is
teleological and goal-directed and is
propelled and directed by the task.
Kohnstamm
In agreement with the psychology of
thinking, he viewed thinking as a central
didactic problem.
By presenting methods of solution
a child can learn to elevate his
achievement scores.
Cronje
The school educates an
independent,
responsible personality.
The school strives for harmonious development.
The school stimulates a
child to self-activity.
The school and its activities
are more linked up with life
itself.
Intellectual educability is
recognized.
Jonges
Doubts there
was really an
accountable
didactics at this
time because the
accountability
was placed in
psychology.
Third phase
Begins with the appointmet of Prof. F. van der Stoep as
head of the Department of Didactics and History of
Education (1960's)
Stoep identified the immediate problem of
didactics as being ensnared in the grip of
traditionalism.
German formative
theory
"Forming"
On the one hand, it refers to an inner change
that occurs in a person on the basis of a power
emanating from the learning content
On the other hand, forming refers to an inner
change in disposition that becomes evident in
the ways a person participates in life and reality.
Stoep
First searched for
the original
fundamental
structure of teaching
than can be pointed
to as a universal
phenomenon.
In order to disclose the original structure of
teaching it is required that the thinker
proceed from the fact that persons are
always involved with structures of reality.
A person's educative
intervention cannot be
reduced to anything else.
Has to occur regarding something
such as values, norms, skills.
These contents are
derived from a person's
life world.
A child has to be taught in terms
of these contents.
The close connection between
educating and teaching arises.
Ways of participating
In teaching, this form
manifests itself specially as
didactic form.
Tertiary didactics
Didactic theory is
particularized for a triary
teaching situation.