Approach of the didactcians to the use of teaching methods

Every scientific field in order to fulfill the tasks required develops its specific methods. This rule applies to the educational work as well. Apart from the scientific method, there are also teaching methods in the educational work. This paper deals with the latter ones. They will be observed via the didactcians opinions expressed in the textbooks, primarily in Serbia. As teaching itself presents a highly organized (complex) activity with a clear aim, it means that it has to have a number of ways and procedures applied in order to achieve their goals. The aim determines the nature of the activity to be performed. This method should give an answer how desired aims can be achieved. During its development didacticians paid a special attention to this issue. A number of specialists in didactics made efforts to find one or more appropriate teaching methods. Discussions on their number and efficiency have lasted up to this day with no accordance in the opinions achieved, yet. Considering the fact that the social circumstances during which the process of education takes place, it is logical that the teaching methods have to be adapted in accordance to the changes. That is why their value is always under observation and evaluation. It is necessary to know all the advantages and disadvantages of each of them so that they could be successfully combined in order to highly motivate each pupil to experience studying as pleasure not as a burden.