This document provides an introduction to pedagogy and defines key related concepts such as education, teaching, and learning. It discusses what education is not and explores definitions of education from several perspectives, including scientific, philosophical, theological and technical. The central task of education is defined as implanting a will and facility for learning in order to produce learning people rather than merely learned people. The document emphasizes unlocking the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity in children through education and encourages continually asking questions.

1. INTRODUCTION TO
PEDAGOGY

2. What do we know?
 What is education?
 What is teaching?
 What is learning?
 What is Pedagogy?
 What is Didactics?

3. First things first! What is
education?
 Education is the ability to listen to almost
anything without losing your temper or your
self-confidence.
Robert Frost

4. What is Education?
What is not:
1. Becoming literate
2. Getting a degree
3. Gaining knowledge
4. Learning skills

5. Who is an educated a person?

6. Activity
 Pair up!
 Read Perfil deseado del hondureño y
hondureña and answer the following
questions: Do I meet the description in this
profile? How so? What do I do on a
daily/regular basis to help my students meet
this profile?

7. The Human Dimension
Scientific
Philosophical
Teological
Technical

8. What is education?
The central task of education is to implant a will
and facility for learning; it should produce not
learned but learning people. The truly human
society , where grandparents, parents, and
children are students together.- Eric Hoffer

9.  No one has yet realized the wealth sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul
of a child. The effort of every true education
should be to unlock that treasure. –Emma
Goldman
 The one real object of education is to leave a
man in the condition of continually asking
questions.- Bishop Creighton

10.  The only purpose of education is to teach a
student how to live his life – by developing his
mind and equipping him to deal with reality.
The training he needs is theoretical ,
conceptual. He has to be taught to think , to
understand , to integrate , to prove. He has to
be taught in the essentials of the knowledge
discovered in the past- and he has to be
equipped to acquire further knowledge by his
own effort- Ann Rand

11. Fines de la Educación Nacional
 Read the 9 education goals as established in
the Ley Fundamental de la Educación, and
let’s discuss:
The role of :
 The MoE
 Bilingual and private education
 Teachers
 Parents and community