Question

What are the various types of communication in pedagogy?

Answer 1

"To teach and to communicate are activities that have very close meanings" wrote Vandevelde (1978). By and large, considering the teachers' daily practice, teaching processes, and educational activities as communication acts may appear obvious given that, since man's early ages, education and communication have been tightly interwoven. Socratic dialogues and maieutics have long been taken as didactic models, but aren't they also prototypal and typical schemes of communication ? And regarding oral tradition civilisations, they use speech as the privileged way to express and transmit the collective memory and culture. Human history offers countless testimonial examples of communication schemes used for educational purposes: rhetoric figures, dialogues or conversation, arguments, etc