The document outlines different approaches to education including: the activist approach which focuses on learning by doing and giving students an active role; the contemporary approach which emphasizes mental processes over physical actions; traditional didactics which views teaching as an art with the teacher as a skilled craftsman; active didactics which aims to educate students for life; contemporary didactics which helps each student improve existing knowledge; structural didactics which teaches mental tools like concepts and attitudes; and the instructional approach where the teacher exposes a topic and has students repeat it.

1. ACTIVIST APPROACH
Consist on learning by doing
since learning depends on
experience. The students
have an active role.
CONTEMPORARY
APPROACH
Focuses on mental action
rather than motor action.
Related to Psycho-
pedagogical process of
learning.
TRADITIONAL
DIDACTICS
Teaching is conceived as a
true art and the theacher as a
craftman woh has to present
his knowledge.
ACTIVE DIDACTICS
The mains purpose is to
educate for life so the
student can dominate
interpersonal and
sociogroup reality.
CONTEMPORARY
DIDACTICS
Try to find what each
students has to
perfectionate through
learning previous
knowledge.
STRUCTURAL
DIDACTICS
This teaches mental
instruments just as could be
concepts, feelings, attitudes,
words or gestures.
PEDAGOGICAL
AND DIDACTIC
APROACHES
INSTRUCTIONAL
APPROACH
Teacher exposes a topic,
repeats it and ask for it to
be repeated.
Ximena Y. Olvera Tapia