Research Methodology of Adult Education and Learning

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Course objectives: Acquisition of knowledge of the basics of epistemological research; training students for understanding the theoretical basics of adult educational research in the context of different epistemological-methodological orientations; for individual designing and realization of research.

Course description: Theoretical course: Research subject of methodology; Epistemological-methodological particularities of cognition in adult education; The nature and the possibilities of law determination in social sciences; Theory and research; Pluralism of research paradigms: hermeneutics, epistemological holism in educational research, dialectical approach; Positivism and critical theory; Quantitative and qualitative research; Particularities and ranges of particular types of research (action, evaluation, ethnographic and system-cultural research); Descriptive and causal research; New tendencies in development of social sciences methodology; Evaluation of research projects and research results. Practical course: Practice, Other types of teaching, Study-research work, Research project design; Construction of instruments; Selection and justification of samples; Plan preparation for data collection and processing; Research report writing and presentation of obtained results.

Learning Outcomes: Student should: know and understand the particularities of epistemological-methodological basics on which different types of research reside; know to design research project; to analyse and critically evaluate the results of research and write the research report.

Literature/Reading:

• Milić, V. (1978): Sociološki metod, Beograd: Nolit
• Savićević, D. (1996): Metodologija istraživanja u vaspitanju i obrazovanju, Vranje: Učiteljski fakultet Univerziteta u Nišu
• Šešić, B. (1982): Osnovi metodologije društvenih nauka, Beograd: Naučna knjiga
• Šušnjić, Đ. (1999): Metodologija, Beograd: Čigoja štampa
• Cohen, L., Manion, L. i K. Morrison (2004): Metode istraživanja u obrazovanju. Zagreb: Naklada Slap, str. 137-153, 191-204.
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• Savićević, D.M. (2011). Uvod u metodologiju andragogije. Vršac. str. 9-159.
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• Šešić, B., (1982), Osnovi metodologije društvenih nauka, Naučna knjiga, Beograd.