The seminar on European Teaching Theories deals with theoretical approaches on teaching and learning – historical and contemporary ones. This seminar focuses on the European roots of adult teaching and philosophical approaches to it, including adult education theories as the background. The anthropological approaches to the didactic interaction with adults will be examined, as well as the didactical consequences of these approaches. Except historical, philosophical and anthropological basis of teaching theories, psychological approaches will be highlighted as the main starting point to the understanding of the learning process of adults and implications for the teaching. Unlike traditional didactic theories, the seminar will address the post-modern theories and the theoretical background of modern methods of planning and running a didactic interaction with adults, with the aim of facilitating the adults’ learning. The practical experiences and situations will be used, analysed and reflected from the theoretical points of view. At the end of the seminar, the students will be able to: -understand the historical roots of different approaches to teaching theories - explain different terms related to teaching and learning of adults - distinguish different approaches and streams in teaching theory, - describe the main philosophical and psychological approaches to learning and teaching of adults - describe different theories of teaching and their relationship to concepts of learning - understand, plan and analyze adult education situations from a theoretical point of view. |
