STATISTINE METODE V EPIDEMIOLOGIJI

Knowledge is described/defined as:
• The information, understanding and skills that an individual gains
through education or experience (2);
• a system of captured facts, and generalization and development of
abilities, skills and habits, that an individual captures more or less
permanently, and puts to use (3,4).
Andragogy and pedagogy
The process of education of adults has its own scientific branch known under the term
andragogy. On the contrary, the scientific branch that deals with education of children
is known under the term pedagogy (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Scientific branches which support educational process of adults and children.
1. Pedagogy.
The word comes from the Ancient Greek “paidagogeo”. This term is a complex
term, composed of two basic terms “pais”, that means “child”, and “ago”, that
means “to lead”. The term “paidagogeo” litterarly means “to lead the child". In
Ancient Greece, “paidagogos” was a slave who supervised the education of his
master’s children. This involved taking them to “didaskaleion”, that mean
“school”, or a “gymnasion“, that mean “gym” (5). Thus, this term is related to
educational process of children.
Nowadays, there exist several very similar definitions of pedagogy,
three of them being:
• according to The Advanced Learner’s Oxford Dictionary (2), pedagogy
is the study of teaching methods;
• according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (6), pedagogy is the
art, science, or profession of teaching;
• in TheFree Dictionary we could find among others that pedagogy are
the principles, practice, or profession of teaching (7).
These contemporary descriptions do not imply that pedagogy is related to
children, but the name itself does.”
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