Introduction to Educational Research

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Course objectives: Acquisition of knowledge of the basic methodological concepts; training students for understanding the scientific research process; building skills and competences for research designing.

Course description: Theoretical course: The concept and the characteristics (general and specific) of the research in education. Goals of scientific research (description and classification, scientific discovery, scientific explanation and understanding and scientific predictions). Basic types of research in education and their characteristics (theoretical and empirical, fundamental, operational and developmental, transversal and longitudinal, comparative, historical). Stages of educational research. Selection of educational research problem. Research project (conceptual, study and technical). Organization of scientific research work in the field of education. Research report. The role of practitioner in educational research. The application of research results in the practice. Practical course: Problem recognition in educational practice and its justification as the subject of a scientific research. Conceptual project design for the research.

Learning Outcomes: Student should: have the knowledge about the goal, process and organization of scientific research; understand the particularities of the basic types of research in education, be able to recognize the research problem in educational practice and design the research project.

Literature/Reading:

• Banđur, V. i Potkonjak, N. (1999): Metodologija pedagogije, Beograd: Savez pedagoških društava Jugoslavije
• Kocić, Lj. (1981): Pedagoški eksperimet, Beograd: Prosveta
• Matović, N. (2007): Merenje u pedagoškim istraživanjima, Beograd: Institut za pedagogiju i andragogiju, Filozofski fakultet
• Savićević, D. (1996): Metodologija istraživanja u vaspitanju i obrazovanju, Vranje: Učiteljski fakultet Univerziteta u Nišu