Analysis of the Functioning Structure of Education from the Computer Science Perspective

Abstract

Our study is integrated into the issues promoted by the General Theory of Education (Fundamentals of Pedagogy), with multiple openings to the General Theory of Education (General Didactics), but also to the Didactics of Computer Science. The general aim pursued is to analyze the structure of functioning of education at the level of an ideal model, which can be argued on the basis of informatics concepts: information, algorithms, programming methods, units of measure (bit and its multiples), databases and so on. The specific objectives aim at analyzing the three correlations that support the structure of education functioning, approached as a general, basic structure: 1) Correlation between educator-educated, globally needed, computer-based argumentation through the use of some concepts (algorithms, formulas, techniques of computer systems, data collections, databases, graphs, networks, etc.) entity-relationship databases, hierarchical data model, network data model, etc.).2) The correlation between information-training-development, necessary at the level of any pedagogical message, which can be argued by capitalizing on: a) the algorithm notion involved in the circuit: input data -maneuver data -output data (leading to a result or sets of results); b) specific properties of the algorithm: finitude, clarity, generality.3) The correlation between the continuous external-internal evaluation, informatically sustained at external-internal feedback level in the context of a informatic system, (self)perfectionable as: a) life cycle deployed in stages (from the definition of the requirements to the maintenance of the system); b) a self-regulating function which can be decomposed into sub-functions, translated into programming languages and reprogramming; c) a model that integrates object-oriented methods, to information, to specific techniques.

The Structure of Functioning of the Curricular Design Activity from the Perspective of Computer Science

“…In the curriculum design of the training, informatic argumentation [11] and validation can be done at the level of the construction of the curriculum [8], the curricula and the textbooks and lessons, as a main form of organizing the educational process. In all four situations it is necessary to pedagogically process the data that make up primary informational pedagogical resources (primary data, pedagogically unprocessed) at the disposal of the designers ("curriculum designers"), realizable on the following computer circuit: Selection of the essential data from the perspective of their pedagogical value potential (optimal training and development of pupils' personality, in relation to the psychological and school age and the particularities of the educational discipline).…”

The Epistemological Model of Pedagogy, Promoted by Stefan Barsanescu

“…; practical, agrarian, industrial, etc. ; cybernetic (Cristea & Manole, 2018), sociological, psychological, historical (Manole & Petac, 2016); prospective, comparative, experimental, etc. ; teaching principles; education system.…”

Informatic Foundations of Training Theory

“…A model for analyzing the structure of the informatic training activity allows: a) to capitalize on the fundamental concepts of informatics (Data, Information, Algorithms, Graphs, Database, Networks, Feedback) in defining and analyzing the object of study, normativity and methodology research -specific to the theory of general education / didactics; b) their use in the validation of the pedagogical language involved and perfected within a general ideal model (the curricular model of the training activity), but also in the applied models (see the curriculum model of the lesson, managerial approached) [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]. In this context can be capitalized not only fundamental informatic concepts that define and analyze the specific object of study of informatics, but also the fundamental and operational concepts that epistemologically fix the normative and research methodology specific to the domain.…”