selection of research methods depends on what area of pedagogy finds its coverage in the course work.For each branch of pedagogy can be used special methods and common.For a historical review will require a consistent analysis of the events from the perspective of the object, which is used as the basis of the study.For example, during the investigation of humanistic ideas of Leo Tolstoy in teaching, research methods in the course work will contribute to both theoretical research and practical, historical and genetic analysis.
Historical analysis is conducted to determine the chronological sequence of events, facts that could be gleaned from the literature, archival materials.Between the links of the chain necessary to trace the causal link, to analyze the sequence of events studied.Genetic analysis involves the study of previous experience, which was formed back in the pre-scientific era.For example, it becomes possible to analyze the origin of humanity and is a manifestation of creativity Tolstoy.We study the features of humanistic attitude in teaching the past and present analogies with the pedagogy Tolstoy.Anyone has the genesis stage of development, therefore, it describes the sequence predisposes stage within which analyzes the conditions that gave rise to the emergence of the phenomenon;generation stage, maturation, stabilization and extrapolation, ieDesign for the future.
research methods in the thesis work complemented the analysis of historical and pedagogical process from the standpoint of psychology, philosophy, cultural studies, allowing researchers to present a vision of the volume of the object, to draw conclusions about the driving force of the research subject.Working with sources of different nature allows the student to use the analytical and search method as the core.
Research Methods course work on history of education can not only be highly specialized, but common.It:
1) Methods of empirical research: observation, comparison, classification, carrying out an experiment.
2) Methods of the empirical and theoretical research: abstraction, analysis, synthesis, simulation, deduction and induction, periodization.
3) methods of theoretical research: historical and logical methods, the ascent from the abstract to the concrete, idealization axiomatization.
Research Methods in the course work can be combined or used in exactly one group of methods.If students aim to continue to use historical material in other scientific work, it uses only methods of theoretical research and empirical study is expected to take place in the research paper or thesis.
relevance of the topic of the course work of historical and pedagogical orientation may be the basis for the selection of research methods.Historical data collected and analyzed by a student must rise to the modern pedagogical knowledge: nourish it, give justification for innovation, to establish continuity between the old and new knowledge.In the history of pedagogy incorporated a lot of ideas that make up the scientific and pedagogical capital accumulated in the works of classical pedagogy, philosophy, culture at different stages of development.
Research Methods course work indicate the breadth or specialization subjects of historical research in the field of pedagogy, to use the author of comparisons of different areas of pedagogy or at the study of the development of any one field of knowledge, one expert, who became the founder of a particular method of education.
