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Introduction
Objectives
After studying this chapter:
You will have an insight into the objectives, content and structure of this
study text.
You will realise your own knowledge about pedagogy,
teaching and
education and what you need to know about it.
Terms to Remember (Key Words)
pre-concepts
education
pedagogy
Introductory Questions and Assignments
Before you begin reading this text, think about your answers to the questions
below. Write them down so that you can get back to them, compare them with
the text and further work with them.
What has education given to you? What do you want to know about it?
Look at the content of this study text and go through it. What has drawn
your attention?
This study text is about education, i.e. an important phenomenon in human life,
and provides information on its theoretical foundations created by the science
of pedagogy.
Fundamental pedagogy (or fundamentals of pedagogy) is a discipline aiming at
explaining the basic terms and relations in education and guiding the students
to an understanding of and thinking about these relations in order to be ready
for the next study of pedagogy.
Fundamental pedagogy is based on the knowledge
of general pedagogy and
theory of education, methodology and history of pedagogy.
The students will
encounter a wide scope of education-related topics. They will understand the
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complicated nature of education conditioned by a complex of influential factors
and its multidimensionality as well as of the theory of education – pedagogy.
The questions and assignments at the end of each
chapter are inspired by
a few basic prerequisites:
According to the theory of pre-concepts and constructivism, the
learner/student should be guided to a variety of activities with one’s
knowledge and experience so that his/her knowledge is further specified,
enriched and solid. Therefore, the readers will always initially be asked to
realize
their knowledge, ideas and experience with education and
instruction and will compare them with the scientific
interpretation of
these phenomena when reading this text.
The activity-based instruction involving active and creative adaptation of
topics by the students results in a deeper understanding and more solid
acquisition of their knowledge. All of this simultaneously creates the skills
and attitudes of students related to the issue under study.
Literature
BERTRAND, Y.
Soudobé teorie vzdělávání. Prague: Portál, 1998.
KALHOUS, Z., OBST, O. a kol.
Školní didaktika. Prague: Portál, 2009.
