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The Moral Role of Pedagogy as the Science and Art of Teaching

In: Pedagogy in Basic and Higher Education - Current Developments and Challenges

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  • Kirsi Tirri
  • Auli Toom

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The purpose of this chapter is to present the key concepts and actors in pedagogy and didactics in the context of institutional teaching. We present a holistic approach to education and view human beings as lifelong learners who need to be educated comprehensively to actualize their full potential. In this chapter we discuss how pedagogy, the science and art of teaching, can promote the educational goals identified in the curriculum. In this chapter we adhere to the Didaktik curriculum tradition in which values and morals are emphasized in guiding the teaching-studying-learning process. This means that pedagogy is moral in nature, and the teacher's main task is to reflect the values underlying her teaching and the purposes she wants to advance in her teaching. We also discuss the current pedagogical challenges in both basic and higher education in educating students for the twenty-first century.

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  • Kirsi Tirri & Auli Toom, 2020. "The Moral Role of Pedagogy as the Science and Art of Teaching," Chapters, in: Kirsi Tirri & Auli Toom (ed.), Pedagogy in Basic and Higher Education - Current Developments and Challenges, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:207493
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.90502
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    Keywords

    pedagogy; Didaktik; teaching; learning; values; moral;
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    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions

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