Abstract

GOMEZ DUARTE, Leonardo  and  PENALOZA JIMENEZ, Gonzalo. Didactics and Communication. Habermas' Contributions to Education. Prax. Saber [online]. 2014, vol.5, n.9, pp.13-29. ISSN 2216-0159.

This article aims at establishing the possible bridges, agreements, or disagreements between the Theory of Communicative Action (TCA) and didáctics. It emphasizes on the necessary relationship between didáctics and debates on the function, goals, and nature of education itself. For this purpose it is firstly presented the relationship between communication and education; then the TCA's basic elements related to didáctics; finally, as a conclusion, some agreements and disagreements between the TCA and didáctics are formulated. The frame of this work is the discussion about the role that a critical theory can play when analyzing the sense of education and its practice.

Keywords : Theory of Communicative Action; communication; education; didáctics.

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