When gender meets didactics… Learning and teaching in context of social constructions This contribution combines didactical and gender-related deliberations and sketches the emphases of the respective discourses. It uses the constructive character of gender in order to take the constructivistically orientated didactics at its word. With the experiences of a model event, didactical steps are presented exemplary which are able to meet the requirements of the special reference between gender a…
Didactics – more than the art of teaching? The contribution gives an overview of the historical terms of didactics. With the background of changing paradigms, drawn is the entry of the didactical term into adult education and its development since the 1960s. One focus of the consideration is on the didactical change from “teaching“ to “formation of learning contexts”, which was influenced by the discussion on constructivism. Concluding, the author elaborates on the state of research on didac…
