Between the Master and the Student - Rrlationships and Education

What is it about?

The text is based on an analysis of contemporary trends in educational communication, which are associated with the transmission of knowledge from a professional sender (the master) to a non-professional receiver (the student). Societal changes, as well as shifts in how the younger generation participates in culture and cultural transmission, necessitate adjustments in both educational goals and methods. Teaching, once seen as a passive cultural transfer, is now giving way to learning as an active process of knowledge construction—one that is dynamic, ever-evolving, and variable. Communication, in this context, becomes a dynamic process of understanding the constantly changing reality and attributing meaning to it through social interaction. Within this framework, it’s essential to revisit the principles of certain educational trends, such as interactive didactics and neurodidactics. Additionally, attention should be directed toward the new quality of interaction and the relationship between teacher and student as the primary participants in the educational encounter. Furthermore, the widespread availability of digital interfaces as essential tools for knowledge processing further shapes this relationship. So, who should the modern master be? That’s the question!

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Why is it important?

Effective educational discourse today is developing in a well-arranged space BEETWEN the teacher, the student and the digital screen. The humanistic aspect of the discourse and its technicisation are inevitably linked, since it is invariably interactions and relationships that form the foundation of its effectiveness. The pandemic-induced time of distance learning has shown that young people’s essential needs include both contact with friendly, inspiring, supportive and motivating adults and the ability to use the available tools and resources effectively and safely in both education and entertainment spheres. Furthermore, ICT in education should be used as tools and information resources for critical analysis to develop reasoning, logical thinking and the ability to express oneself using language, rather than being reduced to another media for the “delivery” of knowledge. Teaching young people to learn with the use of various tools is one of the postulates and requirements of modern times. It is also an objective set before the contemporary participants of educational discourse: Masters and Pupils. The second conclusion is the appropriate formation of relations with other people. In the modern world, what counts is not encyclopaedic knowledge but the competence of analysis and synthesis that leads to effective problem solving while respecting the human factor in this process.

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