ABSTRACT
‘Didactic’ as a word used in English has a rather negative connotation. It is, for example, found as an adjective meaning ‘behaving like a teacher’ ( Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, 1959) or ‘teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson’ (Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, 1994). The term ‘didactics’, generally avoided in Anglo-Saxon educational contexts, refers when used, to practical and methodological problems of mediation and does not claim to be an independent educational discipline let alone a scientific or research programme.
