A Study On Wolfgang Klafki's Didactics

Teaching is the most important work in education and didactics is a science for studying and explaining the regularity of teaching. The development of German education presents a kind of obvious and impressive didactics'tradition. The study on didactics is highly regarded as the heart of education in the exploration of educational areas. After the Second World War, different schools of German didactics have appeared. Klafiki is one of the most famous didactics experts in Germany, and his didactics thoughts of example teaching and critical-constructive didactics have profound influence around the world. The instruction, category education and didactics analysis in his theory affect our didactics in many different ways theoretically and practically. This thesis attempts to study and explore Klaflci's didactics thoughts.There are five chapters in this paper:Chapter one is about introducing the reason for choosing this topic and its meaning. Meanwhile to review the relevant literatures, explain the research methods and introduce the life and academic study of Klafki in briefChapter two discusses Klafki's category education and example teaching which is based on his category educationChapter Three analyzes the didactics, the core of teaching preparation from exploring five basic questions.Chapter Four presents the change of Klafki's didactics thoughts which is critical-constructive didactics and general education based on typical problems in contemporary.Chapter Five criticizes Klafki's didactics thoughts briefly and introduces the theory of Hilbert Meyer, a German didactics expert from Oldenburg University, who has developed a new theory of Klafki's didactics thoughts.