Overview
Lecturer
Cornel-Victor Igna
Seminar tutor
Cornel-Victor Igna
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Education Sciences
Field of study
Pedagogy of primary and preschool education
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, Debate, Problematization, Examples and case studies, Learning by discovery
Entry requirements
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Aims
• Awareness of the special status of pedagogical research - a factor of progress in education, both at the micro and at the macro-educational level
• Operationally define the concept of pedagogical research, highlighting its specificity and characteristics
• To explain the functions of pedagogical research from a theoretical and practical perspective
• To list the main ways of classifying the pedagogical research and to exemplify the different types and subtypes
• To describe the design of a pedagogical research, to explain each stage and to exemplify it
Course contents
1. Brief history of research in education
2. Theoretical aspects of research in education.
3. Designing research in education. The research project
4. Quantitative research methods.
5. Methods of processing and mathematical-statistical interpretation of research data.
6. Qualitative research methods.
7. Organization and analysis of qualitative data.
8. Research in multicultural education. minorities
9. Internet based research
10. Research in schools and universities
11. Research of educational and social policies
12. Research evaluation criteria
13. Capitalizing / applying and publishing the results
14. Research ethics
Learning outcomes
grade
Assessment
Written paper Seminar evaluation sheet
Recommended reading
SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS. QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES
NEUMAN, Lawrence W
ALLYN AND BACON, Boston, 1997 · 1
RESEARCH METHODS IN HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Made Simple
Daniel KASOMO
LAP LAMBERT ACADEMIC PUBLISHING, Saarbrucken, 2010 · 1
BLENDING QUALITATIVE & QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS IN THESES AND DISSERTATION
THOMAS, Murray R.
Corwin Press, California, 2003 · 1