PRESENTATION ON

HISTORICAL EDUCATIONAL

RESEARCHINTRODUCTION TO EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

COURSE CODE: PC 125

GROUP 5

Asif Bayezid 09 145 (15th Batch)

Institute of Education and Research

University of Dhaka.

Session 1: The Background Concepts

The ears of a boy are on his back,

He hears only when he is beaten.

Boyhood Adolescence

Tertiary

Manhood

How actually do we know these information/ facts?Is it from history?So, does history mean...

Inquiry into the past to establish what has actually happened ...??History is a branch of LEARNING that studies the RECORDS OF PAST EVENTS...

What is Historical Context?Today’s indivual’s behavior is shaped by..

SOCIAL ECONOMICAL

PHYSICAL & PSYCHOLLOGICAL

POLITICAL

What is Historical Context?

Past Conditions

PresentInfluence

Why Study the Past?

To explore and to study the change and transformation that the society undergoes.

“The past if it can be located, contains the key to the present.” G. B. Shaw

Research>>>

Process of stepsto collect

and analyze information

to increase understanding

Of a topic or issue.

Educational Research...

Helps educators

understand problems or issues

through the accumulation of knowledge.

Educational Research...Improve practices

Focus attention on important policy issues discussed and debated by decision makers

Qualitative Research...

Designed to explore human elementsOf a given topic

Where specific methods are used to examine

How individuals see and experience the world.

Qualitative Research...

Opposite of QUANTITATIVE REASEARCH

Qualitative Quantitative

Finds answer to Finds answer to

WHY? WHO? WHAT?

Historical Research...

Session 2: The Core Discussion

Stages of Historical Research...1. Identify a researchable phenomenon2. Developing Hypotheses

3. Collection of Data

4. Check and Verify

5. Writing of the Report

Data Collection...-Witness in trial

More than a simple search for facts about

the HISTORICAL STORYInterprets

MEANING OF EVENTS base on

AVAILABLE/ SURVIVING DATA

Primary Sources...First-hand accounts of an event or time in history that has yet to be interpreted by another person.

-diaries, journals, letters, interviews, speeches, memos, manuscripts

-memoirs and autobiographies -

-official records

-minutes, reports

-photographs, paintings, film

Example of Primary Source...

Transcripts of

* Written in Latin

* Translated in English and other languages

* Available on the Internet* Verified by French Historical Experts

Secondary Sources...scholarly books or articles that are based on primary source data and analyze, critique, report, summarize, interpret, or restructure that data.

reference books such as encyclopedias, handbooks

Reviews, textbooks

most scholarly books

most magazine and journal articles

Example of Secondary Source...

Diary of Anne Frank

* 1st Person experience of the WW2

* Contains Valuable perspectives for Historians today

* Persecution that did not exist in Official Documents.

Types of Historical Research...Oral

history

Autobiography Narrative

Case Study

Life History

ValidityExternal Critique

Authenticity

Selection of Bias

Age of the document

At least 2 sources with the same information

ReliabilityInternal Criticism

Meaning of the data

Trustworthiness

Author’s biases

Well awareness of positive and negative criticism

Understanding contemporary issues

Data Analysis and Reporting Findings

Extensive examples

Interpretation of meaning

Developing opinion (Though incomplete)Critical Description

From the past..to the future...

Are we aware of these issues?

Yes...

Today STUDENTS want OUTCOMES from the teachers..

If they pay $50 for permission to enter a class... They want a content worth $50 FROM the TEACHER..!

Do we find any differences..

in the trend of education...Between the ancient

Egypt And our present concerns...??It is the Historical Educational

Research which finds out the answers to these questions...

What good does HR do to Education? 1. Provide information concerning:

- Effects of certain past educational practices- Suggest programs for future action 2. Answers to “WHY?” and “HOW” theories that are

practiced in the schools.

3. Identifies FADS and BANDWAGON SCHEMES appeared on Educational scenes.

4. Contributes to understand:- Significance of

Education- Inter-relationship between SCHOOL and CURRICULUM

SCHOOL CURRICULUM

Peace...