General Didactics

Concept: Education 

Education is the progressive, systematic and natural development of all cognitive powers and abilities, where conducts are modified to give way to enhanced ones, resulting in intellectual and personal maturity of the individual. It is a lifelong process through which values, skills and knowledge are acquired from every day experience. Etymologically, educare means "to guide" and educcere means to "bring out to light". Education is thus the process of guiding the student to the improvement of his or her being. 

Concept: Didactics 

The word is derived from the greek didaskein (to teach) and tekne (art). The concept is both a science (as it involves research and experimentation) and an art (as it makes use of creativity to adapt to specific circumstances). Didactics is a discipline oriented mainly towards practicality, and it studies the teaching-learning process and it approaches it systematically.
For its study, it can be divided as follows:

    General Didactics 

    Involving the basic norms of group-organization and personal orientation.

    Special Didactics 

    Studies didactic norms

    Differential Didactics 

    Studies and determines didactic norms in reference to context and particular                       circumstances

Thanks to advances in educational research, there have been found various forms today to transmit knowledge. The study of didactics has given way to the development of strategies, a series of methods, techniques and procedures affecting the teaching process. These strategies should be used by teachers with the aim of targeting students in the appropriate context (whether is individually or as part of a group) and in accord with their maturity level. In this way, the objective of transferring knowledge that can result in the development of superior skills by the students can be more readily achieved.

An example of how Didactics is an active participant and shaping force in the teaching process is the modification of everyday concepts deeply involved in the process of education.

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