Name: Inália Castigo Dimande

English Teaching Practice

English Course
Year 2

Topic: Pedagogy vs Didactics

Tutor: Elias Peter

Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo

Faculdade de Ciências de Linguagem, Comunicação e Artes
Pedagogy vs Didactics

Pedagogy is a science of educating a child or guiding a child. Didactics refers to principles,

phenomena, forms, precepts and low of teaching with no subject in particular. When we talk
about didactic we look to techniques for teaching. Pedagogy matters because having a well-
thought-out pedagogy can improve the quality of your teaching and way students learn, helping
them gain a deep grasp of fundamental material. Being mindful of the way you teach can help
you better understand how to help students achieve deeper learning.

The difference between didactic and pedagogy is: didactic is a discipline that is essentially
concerned with the science of teaching and instruction for any given field o study, while
pedagogy is focused more specifically on strategies, methods and various techniques associated
with teaching and instruction. Didactic is a art of teaching its object is the teaching and learning
process. Didactics holds the theory of teaching, the programs, lesson plans, books, all of this
materials are organized in the area of didactics.

Pedagogy is influenced by a teacher’s teaching views and includes their knowledge of culture
and various learning styles. Moreover, the primary goal of pedagogy is to build on students’
past knowledge and develop students’ skills and attitudes. Pedagogy allows students to
comprehend a subject entirely and assists them in applying that knowledge in their regular
lives.

Didactics draws the all process of teaching and learning, that's why when a teacher teaches
well, he is called as a didactic because he dominate the program, but he can also be called as a
great pedagogy when he dominate the classroom management, when he knows how to deal
with each child with different behavior in class.

Didactics and pedagogy establish a complementary relationship. Didactics is a branch of

pedagogy, it is concerned with the theory of teaching, the all process of learning. Didactics
entails the curriculum, textbooks, the rules and lows of education system. The most important
characteristic of being a good teacher is having a very good basis of content knowledge.

The link between pedagogy and didactics are teaching performance choices made during
planning didactic organization, teaching paths, application of teaching forms direct actions of
the teacher, use of teaching methods and aids and evaluation of the teaching forms of assessing
students', performances, curriculum, goals, basic principles, and assessment techniques.
Didactics tends to be teacher-centered, for example, a common didactical strategy is a teacher
presenting a lecture directly to their students. Pedagogy, however, is learner-centered and
involves coming up with students strategies that focus on how specific students learn in
different way.

References

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Michael Cole, Vera John-Steiner and Sylvia. Scribner. Cambridge MA: Harvard University
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