The Change of Paradigm in the German Didactics : An Approach to the Theories of Teaching and Communication

Abstract

In this paper I analyse the change of paradigm in the German didactitics after 1970. The main object of this study is the "communicative didactics". Communicative didactics was established by many researchers who criticize the school that gave its focus on the efficiency of education. This didactics considers that the interactive communication among human subjects is most important, because it realizes "the productive-creative function of communication". Communicative didactics will change the relation between teacher and child into symmetrical one. It means the creative "inter-subject" relation. But, at the sametime this didactics protests against "the simple misunderstanding" that there is not the concept of "leadership" in that relation. I analyse the process of the establishment, development and ripply effect of this didactics. I clarify the basic structure of "the theory of teaching and communication".