Theory Basis of Educational Cognition

• Authors: Ausma Špona
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Introduction. The modern society develops rapidly, and constantly significant changes take place in economics, politics, social processes. The processes of changes leave behind schools, education, upbringing, and neither society, nor personality needs, nor individual potential improvement at school is satisfied.Aim of the Study. To analyse the unity of didactics, pedagogical psychology and methods as the theory basis of pupils' educational cognition.Materials and Methods. Pedagogy history, didactics, pedagogic psychology and method sources in Latvian, European and Russian pedagogy and psychology were used for the scientific analysis.Results. Theories of didactics have been perfected within the historic development of school and pedagogic thought. Methodology principles of conformity of nature and culture that require basing pupils' cognition on peculiarities of the specific age and development in studies are significant.Conclusions. Results of the scientific analysis prove that training should use didactic theories, actual findings of pedagogical psychology that correspond to the period, and methods of each lesson should be based on that for the specific age of pupils. General didactics theories are not sufficient for the school.

Keywords

EN

didactics; pedagogical psychology; methods

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Signum Temporis
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 124-130

Dates

published

2009-09-01

online

2011-10-19

Contributors

author

Ausma Špona

• Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy, Latvia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10195-011-0026-5