Università Roma Tre

Problems and methods of research in education.
The course is divided into three parts, each pursuing specific goals:
- lessons, acquire the basic concepts of experimentalism; distinguish common sense from scientific judgment; critically examine words and concepts of the language of education; define the main features of deduction and induction; identify a problem; formulate hypotheses; select problem solving procedures; make decisions; evaluate risks in the decision-making process; acquire the theoretical and methodological bases of empirical research; acquire the theoretical, methodological and technical bases of evaluation in education;
- laboratory (alternative to the seminar), grasp the complexity of educational phenomena, formulate hypotheses to interpret these phenomena, identify changes in individuals and groups both synchronically and diachronically;
- seminar (alternative to the laboratory), read and comment significant texts of the English writer Mary Wollenstonecraft in order to study female conditions in the XVIII century and the suggestions for social and cultural equal opportunities that she proposes in her writings.