PdF:SODA003 Methodology of Scientific Work - Course Information
SODA003 Methodology of Scientific Work in Education 1
Faculty of EducationSpring 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Tomáš Janík, Ph.D., M.Ed. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Tomáš Janík, Ph.D., M.Ed.
Institute for Research in School Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Jana Veličková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Institute for Research in School Education – Faculty of Education - Prerequisites
- The subject is designed as a mandatory in the PhD study programme of Social Education.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- Course objectives
- The course provides an introduction into fundamental ways of inquiry in educational science, with respect to social pedagogy. Doctoral students are confronted with the following issues: object, method, language, theory, knowledge, etc. in educational science. Doctoral students will apply this knowledge in the field of academic research, but also in the field of everyday educational reality.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, the student is able:
- to acknowledge the specific nature of ways of inquiry in educational science;
- to reflect challenges linked with constituting the field of study and research methodology in educational science;
- to grasp the phenomena of educational reality through the language of education;
- to conceive and write an overview study related to the topic of the dissertation. - Syllabus
- To understand (Verstehen) and to explain (Erklären) as fundamental ways of inquiry in educational science: "Geisteswissenschaften" and "Science" and their methodology: hermeneutic/idiographic and nomothetic approach.
- Constituting the field of study in Educational Science: evolving Philosophy of Education, Educational Science, and Practical Pedagogy.
- Educational Science in cooperation with Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology... and consequences for methodology – developing of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity.
- Theory and practice relations and the nature of pedagogical knowledge: layman knowledge, practical professional knowledge, research-based knowledge; descriptive knowledge, explanatory knowledge, evaluative knowledge, knowledge for change, knowledge for improvement.
- The language of education and Educational Science: words and terminology at the edge of natural language, professional language, and language of scientific disciplines (Educational Science, Foreign Language Didactics, Applied Linguistics).
- Literature
- required literature
- CRESWELL, John W. and Cheryl N. POTH. Qualitative inquiry & research design : choosing among five approaches. Fourth edition. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2018, xxv, 459. ISBN 9781506361178. info
- MEYERS, Lawrence S., Glenn GAMST and A. J. GUARINO. Applied multivariate research : design and interpretation. 2nd ed. Los Angeles :: SAGE, 2013, xx, 1078. ISBN 9781412988117. info
- DE VAUS, D. A. Research design in social research. 1st pub. London: Sage Publications, 2001, xvii, 279. ISBN 9780761953463. info
- recommended literature
- Tippelt, R. & Schmidt, B. (Eds.), (2010). Handbuch Bildungsforschung. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- A handbook for social science field research : essays & bibliographic sources on research design and methods. Edited by Ellen Perecman - Sara R. Curran. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2006, xxvi, 254. ISBN 141291681X. info
- Teaching methods
- lecturing, discussing, mapping the state of the art.
- Assessment methods
- Colloquium: Evaluation of the state of the art (review).
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2024, recent)
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