The article discusses the training of teachers in undergraduate courses, particularly in Pedagogy, highlighting the dilemma involving fundamental didactics and specific didactics. Based on the advocacy of the idea that overcoming this dilemma is essential to teach at K-12 education, it describes the theory of developmental education and argues for its contributions to face this dilemma, given the scope of K-12 education primary goal: the conscious, critical learning of school subjects as a primary condition for students to understand and analyze the world where they live.
Didactics; K-12 Education; Developmental Teaching