Pedagogía, profesión, conocimiento y educación: una aproximación mesoaxiológica a la relación desde la disciplina, la carrera y la función de educar

Abstract

Pedagogy, as a career and as a discipline, is directly related to the knowledge of education, and the function of educating is the proper function of professionals of education; it is a function that has to be exercised with technical competence. From Pedagogy, as knowledge of education, it is assumed and based that the quality of education depends largely on the quality of the professionals of education and, while it is true that education is a shared responsibility, it is also assumed and it bases that the technical competence of these professionals depends, in turn and to a large extent, on the knowledge of the education that they have received, build and apply. The term ‘mesoaxiological’ means to value as educational any means used to educate; it means to make theoretical, technological and practical knowledge of education to intervene and evaluate any medium that is used in the pedagogical intervention, adjusting it to criteria of meaning of education which have been established and validated from the knowledge of education. To understand the mesoaxiological perspective, it is necessary to focus the discourse on the meaning of education and its relation with Pedagogy, which is knowledge of education. This article establishes argumentation in favor of the relationship between Pedagogy, as a discipline and as a career, and the function of educating, taking as the axis of the discourse: the concept of education, the professional development of pedagogical functions and the importance of technical competence in order to structuring of the educational system and also on the pedagogical intervention.