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Potrzeba budowy teorii dydaktycznych jako wymóg rozwoju dydaktyki ogólnej
The construction of didactic theories as a requirement for the development of general didactics

Author(s): Eugeniusz Piotrowski
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: theory; subject of research; goals of cognition; researcher’s awareness; model; axiological dilemmas

Summary/Abstract: This paper’s concern is the need to construct didactic theories in the aspect of the development of general didactics. The author performs an analysis of the various ways the term ‘theory’ is understood in the many field of scientific inquiry. What follows is a discussion of the problems of scientific cognition, researcher’s methodological awareness, as well as the models of pedagogy: the scientist, hermeneutic and praxeological models. Finally, the author draws attention to the sources of researcher’s expectations, axiological dilemmas in pedagogical research and potential conflicts of values.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 7-23
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish
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