The University Pedagogy and Didactics: Current Challenges

Abstract

Pedagogy is a science with a high influence on the development of the human being as a social subject, coupled with the historical conditions of each era; within which the didactics has focused on optimizing the methods applied to the teaching-learning process. In the present work, the conceptual, historical and methodological foundations of pedagogy and didactics in the university environment and their contemporary challenges were analyzed, for which a theoretical investigation was carried out. Historical and systemic methods were applied, based on the analysis and synthesis of numerous current bibliographic resources, compiled from important databases, websites and institutional repositories. The analysis carried out allowed us to recognize the historical, dialectical and unequivocal function between pedagogy, didactics and the social, economic, political and cultural context, whose evolution or adaptation to the prevailing conditions must be carried out in all cases, respecting the relationships between its constituent components: knowledge, subjects and institutions.