Lehrkunstdidaktik and its Potential for Vocational Didactics

This paper focuses on the German didactical theory Lehrkunstdidaktik (The-art-of-teaching) and its potential to enrich vocational didactics. A brief outline is given of the central conceptual scheme of The-art-of-teaching: its exemplary-genetic-dramatic approach to pedagogical cases. Following this two cases from vocational didactics are presented and discussed from the perspective of The-art-of-teaching. In conclusion it is argued that The-art-of-teaching is a didactical theory well suited to enrich vocational didactics and, in turn, to demonstrate the general educational value of some pedagogical cases taken from the vocational field