ABSTRACT
In continental Europe, didactics is a core concept of educational theory and practice within which two specialisations have evolved: domain-specific didactics – termed disciplinary didactics – and general didactics. In Denmark the scholarly field of didactics is traditionally conceived as a subdiscipline of the overall scientific field of pedagogy, with the range of individual disciplinary didactics viewed as subdisciplines of general didactics. The chapter suggests that both general and disciplinary didactics are meta-reflective scholarly fields, but that they constitute different yet complementary perspectives on educational matters. The international dialogue on didactics unfortunately encompasses a problem of translation, as key terms in the discipline are not directly translatable into English.
