Discipline that studies education through theories of teaching and learning
Learning: Process of acquisition of knowledge.
Teaching. Process of transfering knowledge
Education: The wealth of knowledge acquired by an individual after studying particular subject
matters or experiencing life lessons that provide an understanding of something.
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Didactics: professional and scientific basis for the teaching profession (Kansanen 1990: 17). It's the organization of teaching.
Contents
Student: Learner
Teacher: The one who provides education
Methodology: Set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating education.
How to teach?
Method: procedure, technique, or way of teaching. Activities.
Assessment: wide variety of methods that educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the on going process of learning, according to the objectives.
Evaluation: Final balance, result of the course.
Approach: Beliefs. How teacher conceives language, teaching and learning process.
Communicative
Grammar
Structuralism
Eclecticism
Basis for delimitating goals and principles of education
General questions like: -What to teach, Why, Where, When, Who, How...