The selection of research methods depends on whichthe field of pedagogy will find its coverage in term paper. For each branch of pedagogy, special and general methods can be used. For a historical review will require a consistent analysis of events from the perspective of the object, which is taken as the basis of the study. For example, in the process of studying the humanistic ideas of Leo Tolstoy in pedagogy, research methods in course work will facilitate the conduct of both theoretical research and practical, historical-genetic analysis.
Historical analysis is conducted to establisha chronological chain of events, facts that could be learned from literary sources, archival materials. Between the links of the chain it is necessary to trace the cause-effect relationship, to analyze the sequence of the events studied. Genetic analysis presupposes the study of the previous experience, which developed in the pre-scientific era. For example, it is possible to conduct an analysis of the origin of humanism and its manifestation outside the work of Tolstoy. The signs of a humanistic attitude in the pedagogy of the past and the present are being studied, and analogies are being made with Tolstoy's pedagogy. Any genesis has stages of its development, therefore, a sequential predisposing stage is described, within which the conditions that gave rise to the phenomenon are analyzed; stage of nucleation, maturation, stabilization and extrapolation, i.e. design for the future.
Методы исследования в дипломной работе supplemented by an analysis of the historical and pedagogical process from the standpoint of psychology, philosophy, cultural studies, which allows the researcher to present a three-dimensional vision of the object, to draw conclusions about the driving force behind the development of the research subject. Working with sources of different nature allows the student to use the analytical search method as the main one.
Methods of research in the course work on the history of pedagogy can be not only highly specialized, but also common. It:
1) Methods of empirical research: observation, comparison, classification, experiment.
2) Methods of empirical and theoretical research: abstraction, analysis, synthesis, modeling, deduction and induction, periodization.
3) Methods of theoretical research: historical and logical methods, the ascent from the abstract to the concrete, idealization, axiomatization.
Research methods in the course work maycombined or used strictly one group of methods. If a student pursues the goal of further use of historical material in another scientific work, then only theoretical research methods are used, and an empirical research is supposed to be carried out in a thesis or master's thesis.
The relevance of the theme of the course workhistorical and pedagogical orientation may be the basis for the selection of research methods. Historical data collected and analyzed by the student should go back to modern pedagogical knowledge: to saturate it, to give a justification for innovations, to establish the continuity between old and new knowledge. The history of pedagogy contains many ideas that make up the scientific and pedagogical capital accumulated in the works of the classics of pedagogy, philosophy, and culture at different stages of the development of society.
Research methods in the course work indicateon the breadth or specialization of the subject of historical research in the field of pedagogy, on the use by the author of comparisons of various areas of pedagogy or on the development of a single field of knowledge, one specialist, who became the founder of a specific methodology of education.
