2008•Unpublished venueRequires access
Education as a discipline and educator as a profession
Abelardo Castro Hidalgo
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Abstract
In the analysis of educational formation, the difficult relation between pedagogy and discipline is a recurrent issue. The concept of discipline is used to designate specific scientific areas such as mathematics, history, biology, etc. In those same analyses the concept of pedagogy is much more difficult to understand. The Report of the Commission on Education Initial Formation (2005) indicates, for example, that the difficulty between theory and practice in al formation has to do, essentially, “with how the educational fact and pedagogy have been understood: as an art, a technique or a science”. This article is a reflection that tries to establish a difference between education as a scientific discipline whose object of study is the