DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNICAL ABSTRACTION SKILLS IN ENGINEERING STUDENTS: DIDACTIC DIFFICULTIES AND TASKS OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to raise attention to a certain issue regarding the technical field of higher education: contemporary students struggle with the lack of being capable for technical abstraction. Architectural engineering as a multidisciplinary profession poses extraordinarily hard tasks both to students and lecturers alike. The following aspects are featured in the article: what are the reasons of the hardness of abstraction / generalization; what dangers this holds within even for the whole society; how higher education fails to cope with this problem; what is the methodology of passing down knowledge; what is constructivist learning theory; how the exchange and receiving of knowledge happens; why cognitive steps are important in studying; and finally: how can lecturers and subjects with intermittent tasks help learning abstraction.