Redefining the Senses of "Model of Teaching" and "Teaching Strategy": An Alternative Approach
Ioannis Fykaris
Department of Philology, University of Ioannina Greece, Campus, P.C. 45500, Ioannina, Greece.
Maria Bimpa
Educational Sciences, B’ Perifereiaki Odos, Myloi, Arta, P.C. 47132, Greece.
Evangelos Tsekos
Educational Sciences, Ioannina-111, Anatoli of Ioannina, 45221, Greece.
Ioanna Katerini
Department of Philology, 12, Strategou Vogianou str., Ioannina, P.C. 45221, Greece.
Vasileios Zagkotas *
Educational Sciences, 78, Karaoli & Demetriou str., Astakos, Aetolia & Akarnania, Greece.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
This article seeks to delineate the senses of "model of teaching" and "teaching strategy" and to determine the relationship between them and the regularity of their coexistence. Trying to formulate definitions also carries a serious risk of error. The literature review shows that the senses of "model of teaching" and "teaching strategy" alternate and are often presented as identical. Rarely used with different conceptual content. Usually, however, these two senses are confused, without being clear either of their possible tautology or of their difference. That is why this article attempts to redefine the two reference senses with an interpretive method and to formulate more precisely their structural semantic content. In the relevant literature the terms of Didactic generally do not formulate and do not accurately capture their basic conceptual definition, resulting in conceptual confusion, if not semantic distortions. Hence, the main aim of the article is teacher, but also for everyone involved in Didactic to understand precisely the meaning of the senses "model of teaching" and "teaching strategy".
Keywords: Redefinition, teaching, model, strategy, alternative.