Didactics: The didactic triangle · Teacher, Learner and Content
How the didactic triangle models teaching as relations among teacher, learner and knowledge, and what happens when one relation dominates.
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1. What are the three poles of the didactic triangle?
- Teacher, learner and knowledge
- Teacher, learner and parents
- Teacher, school and curriculum
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Answer: Teacher, learner and knowledge
The model describes any teaching situation as a set of relations among the teacher, the learner and the content to be learned.
2. In Jean Houssaye's pedagogical triangle, what process links the teacher to the knowledge?
- Training
- Learning
- Teaching
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Answer: Teaching
Houssaye calls the teacher-knowledge relation 'teaching': the work of organizing and presenting the content.
3. In Houssaye's triangle, what process links the learner directly to the knowledge?
- Teaching
- Training
- Learning
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Answer: Learning
The learner-knowledge relation is 'learning': the student's own work of making sense of the content.
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