Lights and shadows of the involvement of the superficially understood procedures
Lights and shadows of the involvement of the superficially understood procedures

Summary/Abstract: The teaching methodology represents a concern of an important number of publications. This paper reiterates the issue from a curriculum point of view and with highlights of manners of implying the methodology of teaching into the nowadays educational and instructional process.A brief presentation of the place and the role of teaching methodology within the learning situation context is the topic of the first part of the paper. The second part details some considerations about classical and modern teaching methodology focused on learning. These are based on more than twenty-five years of teaching-researching activity within the tertiary education level. A special focus is given for the debates on the lights and shadows of the instructional process, a process done with less explicit guidance or even without it. This part is based as well on a brief presentation of what the specialty literature presents. Final considerations stemming from a long term practice in the educational field on all its levels highlight some ideas about the dangerous effects of exclusive methodological approaches in teaching. A personal opinion is presented. The paper intends to debate an important aspect of educational practice: the tendency to work according to what it is fashionable and not genuinely taking into consideration the real aim of the instructional process: developing effective competencies of the representatives of the new generation, aiming to build a more effective future of human society.The day to day reality shows as being really important for the teaching staff to be concerned about the wrong focuses of the new educational practices.

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