It seems quite obvious that D. Trump's victory in the US presidential elections is connected with a certain global and long-term trend, which could be called the "Neo-conservative Revolution" (if we proceed from the fact that the first version of the "Conservative Revolution" covers the 1930s - 1960s).
Naturally, the movement that has begun will inevitably affect the issues of education, and in particular, the relationship between existing ideas about education, and a return to more traditional ones. In particular, the Russian pedagogical tradition is characterized by the prevalence of Didactics over psychological and pedagogical ideas about "individual educational trajectories" and the student as an independent subject.
In our article with E.V. Dutova Chapter Domestic didactics as a historical and cultural phenomenon
we considered didactics as a specific scope of pedagogical knowledge, in connection with which a number of questions arose:1. What are the sources and main stages of development of domestic (Russian) and world didactics? Does didactics form some autonomous tradition, or are we dealing with a layering of different approaches and ideas that do not have a single center and foundation?
2. What are the main challenges to didactics and how do they manifest themselves? In particular, can we talk about “digital didactics” as an autonomous field of research, or are we talking about some change in the means and technologies of teaching? What is the potential for possible transformations of didactics?
3. What is the modern “didactic sphere”? What concepts, ideas, meanings, models fill it?
Hello, great discussion suggestion. I'm not sure if the world didactics is the best representative for what you have in mind (in Greek it means teaching), but let's not focus on that.
Trump is right -leaning/ultra conservative and thus he would be inclined to a more old-fashioned teaching approach and try to refute the modern psychology- based approaches which focus on psychological needs of student, take the teacher out of the role of a protagonist in delivering knowledge and as a "guide" to discovery etc in favor of ones that promote student responsibility, teacher respect and authenticity role etc.
P. P. Afxenti I am very thankful to you for your response! Surely, didactics is something else, than teaching, just because διδάσκᾰλος and teacher may ascend to different cultures and archetypes. Moreover, i suppose the "Trump's turn" in global economy and policy is a visible representation of what is early was expressed by Heidegger in his "Die Kehre" and apology of ancient Greeks. It may occur, that traslation of "περιαγωγὴ ὅλης τῆς ψυχῆς" into modern European languages is more relevant for conceiving today's and future didactic problems, than reproducing ideas of the XXth Century in the radically changed context of the XXIst Century...
If the New Conservative Revolution in education seeks to refocus on content, discipline, and traditional curricula, the revival of didactics may align with this trend—but it is not inherently part of it. Didactics can be employed to support different educational paradigms, whether conservative or progressive, depending on how it is applied and for what purpose.
Ali Naji Jabri It's a really challenging question, wether we can adopt didactics for any kind of "progressive curriculum". Was Socrates a didact? Can we imagin didact saying: I know only i know nothing, but the else don't know even this? And, more theoretically, if the didactics may comprise any kind of "radical doubt"?
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