Building fields of education from Pedagogy: knowledge of education and common activity

Abstract

Education is a real field that people may know through different forms of knowledge. Several types of knowledge and rationality are useful for making knowledge of education: philosophical theories, practical theories, applied research, substantive theories have let them build it. To a higher extent, knowledge of education has already made particular and specific concepts.

This work insists on the difference between knowledge of cultural areas and the specialized and specific knowledge of education: pedagogical knowledge.

The focus is to form criteria on the importance of Pedagogy in the construction of education fields. Knowledge of education makes it possible to build fields of education over cultural areas, transforming information into knowledge and knowledge into education. We have to educate “with” the cultural area and this requires adjusting to the meaning of educating and executing pedagogical function with competence, establishing the educational relationship in which knowledge of education and common activity are necessary means.

We shall see how the pedagogical function generates intervention by means of internal and external common activities. By executing the external common activity, we improve and train the internal activities-capacities: without the activity it is impossible to educate with the cultural area and through the activity it becomes possible for the educate to be an actor-agent and an increasingly better author-agent of his own projects and acts.

Without the knowledge of education, fields of education cannot be built and therefore we cannot educate with the cultural area. Without the common activity it is impossible to educate and by means of the educational relationship we can achieve the concordance between educational values and feelings to make the effective transition from knowledge to action in every built education field.

And so, we can conclude from Pedagogy that knowledge of education and common activity are necessary means of the educational relationship to educate with the cultural area, in every built education field.