Educação & Realidade (Apr 2015)
Interaction Between Didactics and Historic-Cultural Theory
Abstract
Didactics most relevant role is to provide knowledge that instrumentalizes teachers to implement the activities of teaching school subjects. Current contributions towards the interaction between Didactics and the Historic-Cultural Theory offered to teachers for the production of these types of knowledge are highlighted in this paper. Some didactic principles and teachers´ activities are described. Since they have been the object of investigation in didactic experiments, they proved favorable towards the promotion of students´ conceptual learning within the perspective of the formation of theoretical thought.
