The Role of Theory and Practice in Education: A Comprehensive Guide
Versus Theory / Practical
Education is a process of optimizing human rational action. The “Endeavors” to educate must be in accordance with the rules and principles. Technological education is a common task for educators and teachers.
Teacher as Researcher
Research / Action is a way of working from a constructivist perspective that seeks to implement improvements in daily work.
Functions:
- Research: I/A as a scientific procedure.
- Action: Research and action are joined with intent and are functionally at your service on a reciprocal basis.
- Training / Improvement: Personal change is a means to achieve desired social change: individual training, social changes… for the training of teachers. The I/A is a continuous process of communication: Analysis and Planning → Analysis of the problem and thought → Collection → Evaluation.
Example: A child sleeps in class. If they sleep → observe → ponder more days to do → implement.
Types of Teacher Education
Authoritarian Style:
Teacher-led. Example: Only the teacher is dedicated to dictating notes.
- Benefits: Prevents waste of time and allows the teacher to select appropriate activities.
- Limitations: Does not allow students to develop and make decisions, encourages apathy and dependence on the teacher.
- When Effective: In large classes to control and organize students and prevent rebellion.
Democratic Style:
Students participate in developing projects and decisions. Lead one more.
- Benefits: Students are self-sufficient, motivated, and committed to making decisions and participating in activities.
- Limitations: Students do not know as much as the teachers, so their ideas might not be appropriate. Some children’s achievements are limited.
- When Effective: Classes are reduced, students have great ability, and are older.
Laissez-Faire Style:
Passive behavior of the teacher.
- Benefits: Enables some students to stand out and describe their capabilities.
- Limitations: Achievements are lower, students and parents are dissatisfied, and some students will feel lost.
- Situations Effective: In very small classes with few trained students.
What Can Reflect on Their Practice Internalized or Action?
- Introspection: Reflection internalized about their thoughts and feelings of their activity.
- Review: Reflection on life events in class.
- Inquiry: Relates to R/A where teachers examine their practice to identify and adopt strategies to enhance commitment to change and improvement.
- Spontaneity: The reflection in action, when thinking of teachers are teaching. Reflect, improvise, solve problems, and deal with classroom situations.
Broker Educational T7
Family:
Socializing agents of the individual are the first. Leads to the configuration of their personality which produces the most profound influences on human life education.
Functions:
- To the Individual: The family decides the birth of the individual assuming the biological dependency. It is important for the development of their personality, personal autonomy, and independence.
- To Itself: For the individual-family-society, its own coherence is needed.
- To Society: Agents and the family act as a stabilizing factor in society. Several functions are shared with society: economic support for individuals, caring for the less gifted, cultural background…
School:
School Curriculum:
Considering the context where there is a minor process and as an institution responds to the social need to transmit culture, socialize, and prepare. According to Dewey, the school must meet the following:
- Facilitate the assimilation of culture and socializing.
- Remove harmful environmental hazards.
- Counteract social elements of the environment so that each individual is free from the constraints of the environment they were born into and has contact with the social environment within each individual.
- Coordinate the influences of the social environment promoted in the family.
The school is a microcosm that reflects, refracts, and plays the global society.
School Curriculum:
Involves all activity that takes place in educational settings with a manifest intent. The set of experiences, activities, and projects being offered and performed in school. Defining a curriculum involves selecting the most appropriate for learning. Those lessons are incorporated by students but not on the official curriculum known as the “hidden curriculum.”
Peer Group:
This is an area where the child and adolescent receive feedback with their peers and the context in which the adolescent lives with tension to assert and define themselves. This group provides an educational structure for communication, facilitates communication and learning between the creation of friendship between equals. It enables intellectual growth and the construction of the personal self and we as a group.
Media:
They are great mediators in our culture today and are responsible for changes that affect our world.