In the history of education, the educational talk always on knowledge and knowledge of many other scientific disciplines has moved to be included in this sense as auxiliary sciences. As the pedagogy developed from practical philosophy out (See also: History of Education), the philosophy remains to this day one of the most important disciplines. Other examples of important disciplines are:
* Sociology, especially sociology, education, family sociology, criminology
* Psychology, especially developmental psychology, social psychology, psychology and psychoanalysis, according to educational problems and the clinical psychology or organizational psychology
* Anthropology
* Neuroscience
* Behavior
There are three basic positions or science concepts differ, corresponding to the three historically significant and influential "mainstream" of
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* The Humanities Education, with a hermeneutic approach
* The Empirical Education, with empirical-analytic approach
* The Critical pedagogy, with dialectical approach
The violent confrontation of the different epistemological positions led to the insight that characterized the education of science by the diversity of approaches and characterized. Thus, there are different scientific approaches comprehending and explanatory style, but also independent contributions of neighboring disciplines such as sociology and psychology that can be understood in terms of a complementary relationship (see, educational sociology, educational sociology and educational psychology).
The content of the teaching has focused for many years the school as an
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In English pedagogy (s) usually as Educational Science (s) or designated shortly
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Another area of education the critical examination of its underlying values and values (cf. value, value theory). In general it can be concluded that educational objectives are based on supreme values and derived from these standards, the general or universalistic - that cultural and gesellschaftsübergreifende - validity is controversial. The part of educational ethics addresses these questions. A similar discussion about the universal applicability of values and standards is conducted within the ethics (see, for example for the design of a universalist ethics claim the work of Karl-Otto Apel).
Hermann Giesecke has described a systematic theory of professional, so professional educational action to the agent to offer an instrument through which they reflect on their behavior.
