Kv2BP_MEVP Methodology of Stientific Work

Faculty of Education
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Vladimír Smékal, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Vladimír Smékal, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Jaroslav Vaculík, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 12 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to explain bases of research work, that is common to all science disciplines and specifics of science thinking in individual types of sciences.The aim is to understand the ways in which teology can be inspired with other humanitarian sciences and in which ways is her acces to learning irreplaceable and unique. For Christian education and charitably social work there will be commented a way how to realise surveys and research, that can help to set in Christian activities empirically.
Syllabus
  • Various approaches to methodology: as a science about science, as a science about the method of science, as a technology of research, as metatheory. Methods as procedures of research. Methodics as the techniques or operative instruments of research. Relationship among methodology and other sciences. As we know, various approaches to knowledge. Science, scientific work, discovery. Function of science: cognitive, foreseeing, reforming. Classification of sciences generally and especially psychological sciences. The place of psychology among sciences. Existing and designated subject of science. Functional and objective field of science. Instrumental apparatus, conceptual scheme and categorial apparatus. Division of sciences to paradigmatic and categorical. The conception of paradigm and sorts of paradigms in psychology: nomotetic, idiographic, …. Theory, model, conception, image. Types of conception. Structure of theory. Verbal, logographic, symbolic (mathematic, formal) display of theory. Funcion of theory: descriptive, delimiting, generative, integrative. The relationship between theory and praxis. Double prespective: praxis as special activity, praxis as contrariety to theory, centralizatin of activities, direction of time, character of patterns. People around science.
Literature
  • SMÉKAL, Vladimír and Jan BERAN. Obecná škola v zrcadle pětiletého výzkumu. (Program "Basic School" in the mirror of five years long research.). Brno: Masarykova universita, 1999, 52 pp. ISBN 80-210-2165-9. info
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Credit on the basis of oral examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
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