Current Educational Directions

Nowadays, the need for educational transformation, so that the school corresponds to the students’ modern
• Pedagogical approaches and forms of education from the early 20th century.
• From Intellectualism of traditional pedagogy to the pedagogical reforms and Democratic School. The basic parameters of education: the ideals, the objectives and the goals of education, the role of the student in the learning process, the role of the educator, the role of education in society.
• The changing of the role of the school in postmodern society. New functions of the school. Autonomous learning and self-organizing of the school. The educator in the new learning environments.
• Education in the postmodern era. Postmodernism and education. Critique on the Modern. Counter-Education.
• Child-centered dimension of education. Experiential Communicative Teaching Examples. Classic and new theoretical pedagogical approaches and Reform Movements. Democratic School.
• The basic components of visions, convergence and divergence points. Education and discipline in classical and new pedagogical approaches. Their Critique.
• Alternative education. Alternative education and alternative programs.
• Open School. Theoretical views and Examples.
• A School that is open to society. Examples. Waldorf School. Anti-authoritarian education. Summerhill – Free School.
• The Reggio Emilia Pedagogical approach. Theory and features.