SODA006 Quantitave and Qualitative Methods in Education Research 1

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jiří Němec, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Němec, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Štěpařová
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
The subject is designed as a mandatory in the PhD study programme of Social Education. The prerequisite is a basic orientation in the field of qualitative and quantitative methodology of pedagogical (social science) research at the master's degree level.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
Course objectives
The course objective is to enhance the knowledge of methodology in doctoral students in the area of research and interpretation of educational phenomena and to strengthen their independent methodological thinking making use of both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Learning outcomes
The PhD students will be able to: • use of various qualitative and quantitative methods of collecting and analyzing research data (examples of their use, both their advantages and disadvantages) and will be able to demonstrate this knowledge in a discussion; • use advanced knowledge of methodological literature; • orientation in the principles of various qualitative and quantitative methods; • develop the skill of using qualitative and quantitative analyses, • interpret data and metadata on an advanced level; • draught both qualitative and quantitative research designs based on provided instructions; • critically assess the bachelor students´ research proposals for their graduate theses; • use advanced knowledge and understanding of social and education phenomena research (both qualitative and quantitative).
Syllabus
  • Revision and expansion of methodology knowledge and skills in the following themes: 1. Relationship between methodology and education. Methodology and education reality research (the difference between biological and individual reality). Methodological tools and goals of knowledge (epistêmê, technê, doxa). Experience and empirical methods. Quantitative and qualitative methods. Reality and theory, models of social reality. Issues of causality and the scientific law. Metrics, educometrics and sociometrics. Inductive and deductive models. Schematization and reconstruction in methodology. Methodological questions of scientific communication and interpretation. Logic in methodology, definitions and logical statements, forms of logical assumptions and making conclusions. Description and professional language, prediction and explanation. 2. Paradigms in methodology as a social phenomenon. Paradigm shifts: positivism (social positivism), darwinism (social darwinism), behaviorism, pragmatism, existencionalism, marxism, socialism, system (structural) models, realism, empirism, phenomenology, etc. Paradigms in education methodology. Methodological meaning of social and educational reality. Education and learning as a scientific paradigm (social and individual reality). Social actions and decision-making. Changes in social reality and a person´s behaviour. Socialization and the extent of people´s accomodation. Differences in social accomodation and sociometrics – data sets. Cultural differences and aspects of methodology.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • CRESWELL, John W. Qualitative inquiry & research design : choosing among five approaches. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2013. xxi, 448. ISBN 9781412995306.
  • VAUS, David A. de. Research design in social research. 1st pub. London: Sage Publications, 2001. xvii, 279. ISBN 0-7619-5347-7.
  • CRESWELL, John W. Research design : qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. 3rd ed. London: Sage, 2009. xxix, 260. ISBN 9781412965576.
  • SMITH, Jonathan A., Paul FLOWERS a Michael LARKIN. Interpretative phenomenological analysis : theory, method and research. First published. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2009. 225 stran. ISBN 9781412908344.
  • POLONSKA, Anna. A Sociopragmatic Approach to Indirect Speech Acts: Dramatic Discourse Analysis. In International Graduate Conference Discourses That Matter : Contemporary Approaches To English And American Studies, University of Coimbra, 22-23 November 2012. 2012. info
  • VAN LEEUWEN, Theo. Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 192 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-532331-3. info
  • Feminist critical discourse analysis : gender, power, and ideology in discourse. Edited by Michelle M. Lazar. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, xi, 260. ISBN 9781403914866. URL info
  • JORGENSEN, Marianne and Louise PHILLIPS. Discourse analysis as theory and method. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications, 2002, viii, 229. ISBN 0-7619-7112-2. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion, feedback evaluation.
Assessment methods
colloquium: implementation of a research project in the field of Social education.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
Colloquium requirements: 1) Demonstrate knowledge of individual research methods in the discussion (examples of possible use, advantages and disadvantages). 2) Document the dissertation research project with developed research methods, resp. techniques and design of data analysis (model or real example). Elaboration of a theoretical paradigm and its projection into the definition of the subject of research, "measurement", data analysis and interpretation.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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