Original scientific paper

EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS AND COMPETENCES: NEW DIDACTICAL AREAS?

Vladimir Strugar

Abstract

In everyday public communication, especially in education, more and more often the terms standards and competences are used. The question remains whether the terms educational standards and competences, as two mutually related terms, are represented in current course books for didactics, which is one of the conditions of defining them as such.
The author was interested to find out to what extent these terms were represented in pedagogical periodical articles. The author raises the issue if it is justifiable to standardize education or personalize and individualize it. He also deals with problems of favouritism in output and achievements in education at the expense of other elements of the system, such as system inputs and their organisation.
After analysing several course books for didactics, the author came to conclusion that the terms educational standards and competences were hardly mentioned. With regards to the analysed terms representation in course books for didactics and the fact that their authors understand them differently, one can conclude that the didactics theory should define the abovementioned terms, which means that the content and scope of each term should be determined. Therefore, it is suggested that didactics researchers should decide if the mentioned terms will be integrated into the didactics terms unit as termini technici and into didactics course books and, thus, become the teachers’ education curriculum content

Keywords

didactics; course books on didactics; pedagogical journals; educational standards; competences

Hrčak ID:

125293

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/125293

Publication date:

10.6.2014.

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