Naslov
Research of Alternative Schools: Methodological Approaches and Possibilities

Autori
Topolovčan, Tomislav ; Dubovicki, Snježana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
International Scientific and Art ConferenceContemporary Themes in Education - CTE (Book of abstracts) / Kolar Billege, M. - Zagreb : Učiteljski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2019, 67-68

ISBN
978-953-8115-65-3

Skup
Međunarodna znanstvena i umjetnička konferencija Suvremene teme u odgoju i obrazovanju – STOO 2019

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 15.11.2019. - 17.11.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
alternative schools ; education ; reform pedagogy ; research methodology ; student-centered teaching

Sažetak
This paper critically analyses the features of research of education in alternative schools with an emphasis on those based on pedagogical, didactic and philosophical ideas formed in the directions and movements of reform pedagogy. In this respect, the possibilities and limitations of the research of Waldorf and Montessori schools, and schools that are working towards the pedagogy of Celestin Freinet and Peter Petersen are analysed in more detail. Initially, some general features of the methodology of research of education and the characteristics of alternative schools were pointed out. Next, the research methodology features of research in alternative schools have been analysed, defined and classified by the axiological, ontological and epistemological characteristics typical for education. Based on the synthesis of analysed characteristics of the research of education, and pedagogical specialties of alternative schools, certain scientific facts have been obtained, whose interpretation and comparison make the most important conclusions. As it turned out, the methodology of research in education has a wide range of methods, strategies and paradigmatic approaches of collecting, analysing and verifying the obtained data. On the other hand, there is a specialty, authenticity, as well as didactic, school and pedagogical pluralism of alternative schools, with an emphasis on teaching aimed at satisfying the interests and needs of all participants of the educational process. In this regard, the special possibility of researching the alternative schools has manifested in the application of ethnographic and action research, case studies, and generally in the use of qualitative and less quantitative methodologies, with emphasis on interviews, systematic observation, futurology methods, content analysis, and historical research.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pedagogija

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