Didactical Approaches to the Teaching of Disciplines

lmsfe3103  2025-2026  Louvain-la-Neuve

Didactical Approaches to the Teaching of Disciplines
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5.00 credits
22.5 h
Q2

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Teacher(s)
Language
French
Main themes
  • Relationship to... / Relationship to knowledge(s) / Disciplinary awareness
  • Categories of knowledge: Knowledge to teach / Knowledge for teaching
  • Double didactical triangulation and circulation of knowledge (Trainer/Trainee/Training knowledge object and Teacher/Student/Taught knowledge object) :
    • Guidelines for teaching "my" discipline as a teacher educator in higher education and
    • Guidelines for teaching a theory of didactics to future teachers
  • Comparative didactics, didactics of the disciplines, didactics of the discipline, didactics of the subfields of the discipline
  • Curriculum / Progression and ruptures of disciplinary learning
  • Construction of the didactic "game": Gestures and postures of the trainer/teacher and the students/pupils 
  • Training in and by research to address specific didactical issues
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 With regard to the MSFE2MC learning outcomes framework, this unit contributes to the development and acquisition of competencies 1 & 5 :
  • Mastery of the didactics of the discipline(s) concerned or of the didactics applied to these disciplines;
  • The capacity to participate in the design of teacher training systems and to implement these systems.
At the end of this teaching unit
  • the student is able to design and analyze coherent professional training systems - within the teacher training curricula in which he/she is involved - and can justify the pedagogical choices made or the alternatives proposed with regard to the educational theories seen in the unit;
  • he or she can take a reflective and analytical look at his or her new profession of teacher educator.
 
Content
  • Relationship to... / Relationship to knowledge(s) / Disciplinary awareness
  • Categories of knowledge: Knowledge to teach / Knowledge for teaching
  • Double didactical triangulation and circulation of knowledge (Trainer/Trainee/Training knowledge object and Teacher/Student/Taught knowledge object) :
    • Guidelines for teaching "my" discipline as a teacher educator in higher education and
    • Guidelines for teaching a theory of didactics to future teachers
  • Comparative didactics, didactics of the disciplines, didactics of the discipline, didactics of the subfields of the discipline
  • Curriculum / Progression and ruptures of disciplinary learning
  • Construction of the didactic "game": Gestures and postures of the trainer/teacher and the students/pupils 
  • Training in and by research to address specific didactical issues
Faculty or entity


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Advanced Master inTeacher Education