Theory of education and didactics Theory of education and didactics

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The word "didactics" has an ancient Greek origin. "Didasco" (оЧбааксо) means to teach, instruct, "didaskalia" (оЧ8аакос?аа) - training, education, didagma (&Ч5ауц,а) - lesson. In ancient Greece, teachers were called "didas-kalos" (Zt-baakoLoO, which is where the name used in our country in the past for the teacher "daskal" comes from.

As pointed out by Prof. M. Geraskov1, the first sciences got their names from the Greek philosophers and scientists who developed them. Too often, however, Greek or Latin names are also used for later emerging sciences, as well as for their conceptual and terminological apparatus, due to the international character of these languages in the past. This also applies to didactics, which was built as a science much later than Greek and Roman spiritual culture.

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In the past, and even now, the term "didactics" has been given a different meaning. The founder of didactics, Jan Amos Comenius, considered it in a very broad sense, covering all activities for learning, education and upbringing, i.e. everything that studies pedagogy today. This understanding is preserved until Johann Friedrich Herbart, for whom didactics is a part of pedagogy, a science of educational learning, for its aims, tasks, methods and means. Adolf Disterweg also distinguished didactics as a theory of learning from a theory of education in the narrow sense of the word.

• Theory of education
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