Discussing the theory-practice binomial in teaching: Mapping authors and positions
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Theory-practice Relationship, Teaching Theories, Educational ResearchAbstract
This article covers different points of view from which the relationship between learning or teaching theories, and educational practices has been observed. It first addresses the literature that made learning theory the basis of any teaching theory that expected to achieve good results. Then it comes across researchers who, by observing and analyzing teaching practice, open up a promising path in relation to the possibilities of improving it. Finally, there are those authors who recognize teachers as theorists of their practices. The conclusion invites us to rethink the idea of a theory-practice relationship in the educational world, rethinking, in turn, the existing relationships among educators, researchers, politicians and administrators of education.
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