PRESENTATION ON

HISTORICAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

INTRODUCTION 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?

Todays indivuals behavior is shaped by..

SOCIAL

ECONOMICAL

PHYSICAL & PSYCHOL LOGICAL

POLITICAL

What is Historical Context?

Past Conditions

Influence

Present

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 steps to 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 elements
Of 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 WHY?

Finds answer to

WHO? WHAT?

Session 2: The Core Discussion

Historical Research...

Stages of Historical Research...

1. Identify a researchable phenomenon
2. 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 STORY
Interprets 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 -official records -memoirs and autobiographies -

-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

most scholarly books

Reviews, textbooks 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

Life History Case Study

Validity
External Critique
Authenticity

Selection of Bias
Age of the document At least 2 sources with the same information

Reliability
Internal Criticism

Meaning of the data Trustworthiness Authors biases Well awareness of positive and negative criticism Understanding contemporary issues

Data Analysis and Reporting Findings Interpretation of

meaning

Extensive examples
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 SCHOOL and CURRICULUM
CURRICULUM

Peace...