This chapter presents an historical overview of the development of the “Deutsche Didaktik”
and compares it with the American tradition of research on teaching. This tradition is traced …

The origins of the German tradition of didactics (didactica) are associated with the work of
Wolfgang Ratke and Johan Amos Comenius (1592-1670) at the beginning of the 17th …

This chapter discusses the relationship between “Allgemeine Didaktik”(General Didactics)
and “Fachdidaktik”(Subject Didactics) and draws particular attention to the importance of the …

What new tendencies can be made out in Swedish educational research in the last three
decades? Briefly, the following developments are described: In the 1970s, a long‐prevailing …

Didaktik and Curriculum Theory: Are They the Two Sides of the Same Coin? | IDEALS University
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The American tradition of curriculum studies and the German tradition of'Didaktik'address
thinking about the subject-matters of teaching, teaching itself, schooling, and'educating'. Are …

The following chapter deals with the unresolved issue of the explanatory power and the
impact of didactics or the didactics approach on school education which is prevalent in many …

When Bjørg Gundem in Oslo, Klaus Westphalen in Kiel or Karl Frey in Zürich want to explain
to their student teachers how to prepare lessons, they all use the same term: in German …

This book explores a set of fundamental problems in curriculum theory. It is a work from
within the traditions of Bildungstheorie, human-science education theory, and Didaktik …

Despite seeing great diversity in the European didactic landscape, the author searches for
ground that is common to this diversity. He looks back to the “Pampaedia” of the founding …