ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors refer to the founding father of didactics, John Amos Comenius, to Johann Friedrich Herbart, Wilhelm von Humboldt and, finally, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, who is the author of far-reaching reflections on the organization of education in general and of schooling in particular. They examine five classical topics: the objectives; the content, methods and media; the organization of schooling and instruction; and student achievement. The authors concern the sub-disciplines of didactics and the co-existence of different didactical models. The sub-disciplines of the general didactics as an ensemble of topics/themes/problems together constitute the field, and what is true for hyphen didactics also holds for the sub-disciplines of the field. The authors examine two problems – namely, an adequate identification of "Bildung"/"Allgemeinbildung" on one hand and constructive work on the instructional process on the other.
