Course 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 Entry Requirements:

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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

Teaching methods:

Lecture, Debate, Problematization, Examples and case studies, Learning by discovery

Learning outcomes:

grade

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper Seminar evaluation sheet

Recommended reading:

NEUMAN, Lawrence W, SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS. QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES, ALLYN AND BACON, Boston, 1997, 1.
Daniel KASOMO, RESEARCH METHODS IN HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Made Simple, LAP LAMBERT ACADEMIC PUBLISHING, Saarbrucken, 2010, 1.
THOMAS, Murray R., BLENDING QUALITATIVE & QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS IN THESES AND DISSERTATION, Corwin Press, California, 2003, 1.