Scientific and methodological approaches to the study of pedagogical personality

Abstract

The article presents a synthesized analysis of scientific and methodological approaches to the study of pedagogical personalities - famous teachers, scholars, public figures who have made a significant contribution to the development of education and pedagogical science of Ukraine and the world. The essence of scientific and methodological approaches is characterized according to their division into two main conditional groups: «traditional» that were used in historical and pedagogical studies in the second half of the XX century (historical and logical; semantic and formal; personal and active; quantitative and qualitative; culturological and its varieties, etc.) and «innovative» , which began to be actively used as a research tool in the late 1990s (anthropological, axiological, phenomenological, hermeneutic, intellectual and biographical, paradigmatic, synergetic, etc.). The peculiarities and difficulties of using scientific and methodological approaches to the study of pedagogical personality are clarified. They are connected to the fact that, first, this issue is mainly considered in the context of the study of individual biographies, which determines the brevity, abstractness of its understanding or does not take into account the specifics of biographical studies. Secondly, due to the «multi-layered» methodology of pedagogical science and the subjective reflections of scholars, there is an arbitrary interpretation and use of these methodological approaches. Third, in specific biographical studies, scientists operate with a relatively narrow range of methodological approaches, which limits the cognitive possibilities and general research results.

Keywords

• scientific approach
• pedagogical personality
• intellectual biography
• anthropology
• axiology
• phenomenology
• hermeneutics
• synergetics