SOp505 Methodology Workshop

Faculty of Education
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Dušan Klapko, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Dušan Klapko, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Štěpařová
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
SOp505/01: each odd Tuesday 15:00–16:50 učebna 33, D. Klapko
Prerequisites
The content of the course is a philosophical and theoretical anchoring of research methods, methods of research design, application of methodological tools (especially in the framework of discursive approaches), training of writing research reports, critical evaluation of possibilities and limits of research methods, usability for social science research. In this course, the role of human being as an active subject participating in reshaping the conditions of one's own life position is emphasized.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 8 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
At the end of the course the students: • present their research based on theory, • describe the differences between qualitative and quantitative methodology research, • discuss the research paradigm, • analyse written materials, • apply the methodology tools to the social education research, • critically evaluate the research data validity, • elaborate research design and research reports.
Syllabus
  • 1. The place of social pedagogy in the system of pedagogical sciences as human sciences. 2. The concept and limits of social pedagogy as a social science in comparison with the concept of natural sciences. 3. Quality oriented paradigm of research (philosophical background, concepts, examples of research methods). 6. Quantitatively oriented research paradigm (philosophical background, concepts, examples of research methods). 7. Research in critical research (goals, subject of research, influence on social reality). 8. Creation of research design, creation of problem questions, methods of data collection. 9. Research report writing, research data interpretation training, polemic over the results of the survey.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • DISMAN, Miroslav. Jak se vyrábí sociologická znalost :příručka pro uživatele. 3. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2000, 374 s. ISBN 9788024601397. info
  • HENDL, Jan. Kvalitativní výzkum : základní teorie, metody a aplikace. 3. vyd. Praha: Portál, 2012, 407 s. ISBN 9788026202196. info
  • FAJKUS, Břetislav. Filosofie a metodologie vědy : vývoj, současnost a perspektivy. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2005, 339 s. ISBN 8020013040. info
  • KERLINGER, Fred N. Základy výzkumu chování : pedagogický a psychologický výzkum. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1972, 705 s. info
  • STRAUSS, Anselm L. and Juliet M. CORBIN. Základy kvalitativního výzkumu : postupy a techniky metody zakotvené teorie. Translated by Stanislav Ježek. Vyd. 1. Brno: Sdružení Podané ruce, 1999, vi, 196. ISBN 808583460X. info
  • ŠVAŘÍČEK, Roman and Klára ŠEĎOVÁ. Kvalitativní výzkum v pedagogických vědách. Vydání druhé. Praha: Portál, 2014, 377 stran. ISBN 9788026206446. info
Teaching methods
Workshop.
Assessment methods
sample of research analysis.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ics.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1703
Completion of the course is based on the creation of a research analysis, which each student implements independently in the range of three pages. The research analysis will be applied to the text that will be given by the teacher. The student will send elaborated research analyzes to e-learning course (password: freire).
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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