The teacher design competence. Explanation of the abductive component

Abstract

The paper aims at offering a description of the teacher design analysing the
abductive component.
After a brief presentation of the design competence, from the descriptive
point of view and taken from the literature, the work focuses the attention
on the underlying processes, in reference to the ‘Purpose-Variables-Path’
model (F-V-P).
Starting from the original definition of Ch.S. Peirce and with the support of
examples taken from the educational field, the abductive inference - typical
of the initial design phase - is analyzed in its internal dynamic.
On the basis of the adduced arguments, the paper ends underlining the
need to elaborate epistemic tools able to explain the ‘complex’ competences,
as the design one.