Resemblance

Personally, I feel quite similar to Pestalozzi when he was a child.  I mean, I was really talkative and I got the content quite fast, but what they never told me was that I was smart, no.  They made me feel bad about it.  I guess if I would had been different maybe I would be smarter today.  I think that we as teachers have to focus on our students and their realities, their rhythms, they previous knowledge and how they feel and live.

Pestalozzi

Felipe Abarca
Carolina Hinojosa
Aldo Vegas

1) What is the historical context of this character?

The historical context of Pestalozzi is in the children and more nursery learning. He was in the France revolution helping politically in the education of war orphan and poor children.

2) Describe the character. Mention the main aspects of his life

He was a reckless child at school, without improved skills but his naturalism pedagogy tells about education as an intuitive process. He has a great admiration of Rousseau and his ideas about naturalism, the importance of teaching in equality of sex, the importance of the physical education as Grecian taught.

3) What does this carácter propound in education?

Pestalozzi’s pedagogy focuses on in elementary education and, since 1811, he and his collaborators named the pestazollian system with the name of “very elemental education”.  His education propound that the process of human development (sensitive, intelectual and moral) follows the same evolutive course of the child’s nature, without artificially skip steps of the same.  Pestalozzi sees the education as a “help” that is given to the child in this process to fulfill themselves and the educative and teaching activity is seen as an “art”.  It is from vital importante in Pestalozzi’s pedagogy his method of intuition, through which they can develop his proposal in education.

4) What is the role of the teacher in his model?

The teacher is more a mediator or guide than a conductor. As we see here, Pestalozzi thinks that children have to learn in harmony with nature, but they only need help.  It is the teacher who adapts himself to the child’s mental development and not otherwise.  The teacher doesn’t push the situation, he creates an proper enviroment through sensitive intuition of thing as a global perspectiva.

5) What is the role of the student in this model?

Pestalozzi says that the pedagogy of love, we need to trust on the students’ capacities, because the education follows the humanity development.

6) Give an example of his model in a specific situation.

Pestalozzi  indicates we should enrich the memory of children with simple explanations of objects and material.  In this case students could remember all that has been taught because of the pleasure to learn something new that a tutor who children love, it is easier to get.

Identify the fields of study in Didactics

Definition of Didactics:

Didactics is a fundamental part of the education, and this word has its ethimological origin in two words from the latin; Educare (to lead, to guide, to orientate) and Educere (to extract, to bring light).  Didactics comes from the greek "didajein" which means to teach, to instruct, to expound clearly.
First of all, I have to say that didactics is the science or the art of teaching.
Didactics is the discipline that has a main target, the technique of teaching, which means that It specializes in the way of lead and orientate the students efficiently, in all the levels and in all the processes and methods to achive itl

Domains:
Psychology: It was used by Pavlov, Guthrie, Thondike, Skinner, Ausbel, V. Gotsky.
Pedagogy: Suchas, Dewey, Clopaede, Piaget.
Philosophy: Manier, García, Hoz.
Sociology: Casinet, Kerschensteiner, Makarenko, Apple.

Information Theory and General System.
Comunication Theory, The New School, Renovation Movements.

Teaching: Form a didactic perspective and we could distinguish 4 models.

1.  Technological model.
2.  Process model or investigation at the action.
3. Situational models or artistics.
4.  Socio-critics model.

This is a new subject to me, I guess I want to learn so much more about this beautiful science, teaching obviously, I haven't read much about what is this subject refers to, but I think I will improve what I already know and at the end of the semester, I will be so much closer to become a teacher and better prepared.