Vispārīgā didaktika skolotāju sagatavošanas programmās

Abstract

The implementation of the European Union regulation “Europe 2020” has given the possibility to review the content of the offered educational programmes. New study courses have appeared, and the existing ones have changed the emphasis from knowledge acquisition to competence-based learning. At the same time, the students’ view of general didactics as one of the basic disciplines in pedagogy is changed. The aim of the research is to help to understand the problems in contemporary teacher education and purposefully push further the development of education improving its quality. For analysis of the research data the following methods are employed: descriptive statistics and content analysis. In Latvia, currently teacher education programmes are implemented by seven higher education institutions, which offer 24 study programmes, but the research topics of general didactics are included in the offer of four higher education institutions. Other educational institutions have included topics related to the particular didactics in their programmes. The study course on general didactics should be developed taking into consideration the interaction between the concepts of science and pedagogy, general didactics, study course and competence. In Latvia, considering the development of general didactics as a sub-branch of science, it is supplemented with the explanations of concepts used in higher education.