Didáctica y construcción del conocimiento.

The article "Didactics and knowledge construction" addresses the importance of didactics in the construction of knowledge in Social Sciences and Didactics. It emphasizes that didactics seeks to connect man with his natural and social environment, and that social scientific knowledge aims to understand the phenomena and the meanings and symbols of the culture in which they arise. It is proposed that didactics is a social science that focuses on understanding the processes of teaching and learning in social contexts, and different perspectives are mentioned to delimit it as its own field of knowledge. In addition, it is mentioned that didactics is a tool to develop educational quality and theoretical-technological approaches are offered to improve teaching and learning processes. Finally, three traditions in the field of educational inquiry are mentioned: the rational-technological tradition, the hermeneutic-interpretive tradition, and the critical tradition. The author highlights the importance of hermeneutics and ethical consideration in teaching. [Extracted from the article]