Erziehungswissenschaft — definition?
A field studying education and upbringing.
Pedagogy — origin?
Derived from guiding and leading a boy.
Erziehung vs Pädagogik — difference?
Erziehung is more theoretical; Pädagogik is practice-oriented.
Brenzika's three types?
Empirical science, philosophy of education, practical pedagogy.
Object of education science?
Educational influences, conditions, and effects.
Intentional education — type?
Institutionalized, formal, controlled.
Functional education — type?
Spontaneous, informal, uncontrolled.
Main tasks of education science?
Systematic, historical, and comparative education.
Ontology — address?
What exists and can be known in education.
Epistemology — investigates?
How educational knowledge is acquired and its certainty.
Methodology — concerns?
Procedures and methods for investigating educational phenomena.
Hermeneutics — role?
Understanding and interpreting educational meaning.
Hermeneutic circle — describes?
Understanding as part-whole, whole-part movement.
Case study (Kasuistik) — focus?
Detailed analysis of individual educational cases.
Empirical research — standards?
Objectivity, reliability, validity.
Experimental pedagogy — foundation?
Positivism, emphasizing observable, measurable data.
Positivism — associated with?
Auguste Comte, scientific verification, natural science methods.
Historical fluctuations — key event?
Founding of the DIPF in 1951.
Methods in education research?
Controlled experiments, field studies, questionnaires, qualitative and quantitative procedures.
Methodological pluralism — meaning?
Using diverse methods to address educational complexity.
Challenges in empirical research?
Balancing rigor with practical relevance and recognizing practitioner knowledge.
Hermeneutic approach — object?
Educational phenomena as meaningful, culturally shaped, and interpretively accessible.
Critique of hermeneutics?
Cultural bias, limited objectivity, neglect of power/ideology.
Case study steps?
Observation, documentation, interpretation.
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