Introduction to Pedagogy

1. INTRODUCTION TO
PEDAGOGY

2. What do we know?
 What is education?
 What is teaching?
 What is learning?
 What is Pedagogy?
 What is Didactics?

3. First things first! What is
education?
 Education is the ability to listen to almost
anything without losing your temper or your
self-confidence.
Robert Frost

4. What is Education?
What is not:
1. Becoming literate
2. Getting a degree
3. Gaining knowledge
4. Learning skills

5. Who is an educated a person?

6. Activity
 Pair up!
 Read Perfil deseado del hondureño y
hondureña and answer the following
questions: Do I meet the description in this
profile? How so? What do I do on a
daily/regular basis to help my students meet
this profile?

7. The Human Dimension
Scientific
Philosophical
Teological
Technical

8. What is education?
The central task of education is to implant a will
and facility for learning; it should produce not
learned but learning people. The truly human
society , where grandparents, parents, and
children are students together.- Eric Hoffer

9.  No one has yet realized the wealth sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul
of a child. The effort of every true education
should be to unlock that treasure. –Emma
Goldman
 The one real object of education is to leave a
man in the condition of continually asking
questions.- Bishop Creighton

10.  The only purpose of education is to teach a
student how to live his life – by developing his
mind and equipping him to deal with reality.
The training he needs is theoretical ,
conceptual. He has to be taught to think , to
understand , to integrate , to prove. He has to
be taught in the essentials of the knowledge
discovered in the past- and he has to be
equipped to acquire further knowledge by his
own effort- Ann Rand

11. Fines de la Educación Nacional
 Read the 9 education goals as established in
the Ley Fundamental de la Educación, and
let’s discuss:
The role of :
 The MoE
 Bilingual and private education
 Teachers
 Parents and community