Beyond Fragmentation: Didactics, Learning and Teaching in Europe

Meinert Meyer, Brian Hudson

• Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9783847413745
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Pedagogía
• Subtopic: Métodos de enseñanza de la educación

There is great diversity in teacher education systems and approaches to learning and teaching practice across Europe, even though the practical everyday problems of the various national education systems may be very similar. Against this background, in the field of research on didactics, learning and teaching it is important to overcome fragmentation and to find common ground. In this book the editors demonstrate how far we have come over recent years in advancing research in the field which has the ultimate aim of improving learning and teaching. The editors recognise the diverging national and local practices as a starting point in searching for common ground and in creating shared understandings. The book is organised in six parts with 26 chapters in which the authors examine whether there is a paradigmatic shift from teaching to learning, take a closer look at various teacher education models and their empirical basis, discuss the importance of subject didactics, curriculum work and lesson planning, and analyse the impact of Information and Communication Technologies on didactical design. Finally, they relate the empirical findings to theory construction and offer proposals to further advance this vital field by increasing levels of international co-operation.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Beyond Fragmentation: Didactics, Learning and Teaching in Europ
• Contents
• Introduction: Finding Common Ground Beyond Fragmentation (Brian Hudson, University of Dundee, andMeinert A. Meyer, Hamburg University)
• Part One: From Teaching to Learning and Back to Teaching
• Part Two: Teacher Education
• Part Three: Teacher Research
• Part Four: Didactical Design and Lesson Planning
• Part Five: Subject Didactics and National Didactics
• Part Six: Educational Theory and Empirical Research
• Index
• List of contributors