A Casual Analysis in Research on History of Education

Authors

  • Leonid Vakhovskyi Educational and Research Institute of History, Department of Social Work, International Relations and Socio-Political Sciences, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University 36003, 3 Koval St., the City of Poltava, Ukraine
  • Tetiana Ivchenko Educational and Research Institute of History, Department of Social Work, International Relations and Socio-Political Sciences, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University 36003, 3 Koval St., the City of Poltava, Ukraine
  • Svitlana Sechka Department of Foreign Languages, Donbas State Pedagogical University 84100, 19 General Batiuk St., Sloviansk, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs2022.2.253.262

Keywords:

causality, determinism, causal analysis, teleological analysis, cause, effect, history of education

Abstract

Aim. The purpose of the study is to reveal the cognitive potential and limitations of causal analysis in historical and pedagogical research and to consider alternative methods of explaining historical and pedagogical facts.

Methods. Methodological significance for the study were the principles of historicism, objectivity, historiographical tradition, taking into account the totality of facts. To implement the goal a set of theoretical methods was used: analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalisation, and systematisation of scientific positions, historical-genetic, historical-comparative, historical actualisation of the problem.

Results. The essence of causality as one of the most important forms of interconnection and interdependence of phenomena and processes of being, expressing a special genetic relationship between them, reveals the specificity of functional and stochastic (random) causality. Historical forms of determinism were characterised: classical (linear), non-classical (non-linear) and neoclassical (fractal).

Conclusion. The search for monocausal determination in the study of historical and pedagogical processes seems unproductive. To get a more complete and reliable picture of the cause-effect relations the causal analysis should be complemented by teleological analysis, which will make it possible to find out not only why, but also for what purpose certain actions were carried out. Only in this case is it possible to provide scientific and objective historical explanations and interpretations, the adequacy of understanding of historical and pedagogical facts, to find ideas and meanings in the past experience, which will help to solve contemporary educational problems, to predict the development of education in the future.

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Author Biographies

  • Leonid Vakhovskyi, Educational and Research Institute of History, Department of Social Work, International Relations and Socio-Political Sciences, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University 36003, 3 Koval St., the City of Poltava, Ukraine

    Doctor of pedagogical sciences, professor. He is the author of more than 100 scientific publications. His research interests include philosophy of education, history of education and pedagogical thought, methodology and methods of historical and pedagogical research, comparative education. His doctoral thesis dealt with the study of the peculiarities of Western philosophy of education in the Age of Enlightenment.

  • Tetiana Ivchenko, Educational and Research Institute of History, Department of Social Work, International Relations and Socio-Political Sciences, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University 36003, 3 Koval St., the City of Poltava, Ukraine

    Candidate of pedagogical sciences and an associate professor. She is the author of 23 scientific publications. The sphere of her scientific interests covers history of education and pedagogical thought, professional training of future social workers. In her PhD thesis she examined the trends in the development of vocational education in Ukraine in the 40-50s of the 20th century.

  • Svitlana Sechka, Department of Foreign Languages, Donbas State Pedagogical University 84100, 19 General Batiuk St., Sloviansk, Ukraine

    Candidate of pedagogical sciences and an associate professor. She is the author of more than 30 scientific publications. Her scientific interests include the history of education and pedagogical thought, methods of teaching English, the use of the most advanced information technologies in teaching foreign languages. In her PhD thesis she explored the content and forms of socialization of student youth in Ukraine in the 60-80s of the 20th century.

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Published

2022-09-27

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2022): Journal of Education Culture and Society

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EXPERIENCE

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Vakhovskyi, L. ., Ivchenko, T., & Sechka, S. (2022). A Casual Analysis in Research on History of Education. Journal of Education Culture and Society, 13(2), 253-262. https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs2022.2.253.262