IMPORTANCE AND PLACE OF BIOGRAPHICAL METHOD IN PEDAGOGICAL METHODOLOGY

Abstract

The article covers and analyzes the biographical method of pedagogy; it defines its importance and place in pedagogy methodology based on historical-genetic approach and inter(cross)disciplinary analysis of academic sources. It establishes the current phenomenon of considerable extension in objective consideration of biographical method by social sciences and the humanities (the so called "biographical turning point") and recognition of scientific “usefulness” of this method at the theoretical level. This is the very fact which stipulated the topicality of methodological realization of biographical method as a moder way of development of theoretical and practical pedagogical activity. Currently the biographical method is an important component of methodological range of the whole system of pedagogical sciences. The biographical method in pedagogical methodology shall be considered both as the method of research and obtainment of scientific pedagogical knowledge (for example, in pedagogical history, pedagogical biography science, life-creation pedagogy) and as the important method of extensive innovative teaching practice in didactics and certain methods of teaching (literature, history teaching method etc.). It can be used when considering pedagogically adapted biographical materials about the distinguished public figures and historical figures in a certain science; in special and rehabilitation pedagogy, when considering biographical knowledge on the examples of successful physical rehabilitation and socialization; in social pedagogy during social and pedagogical counseling, in educational theory etc.. The article also reveals the academic, educatory and learning opportunities of biographical method for the development of personality of candidates for academic degree and its significant role in implementing “humanization of knowledge” in the comprehensible principle of humanization and humanitarization. It was defined that this method holds a prominent place among interdisciplinary pedagogical methods and has the forseeable prospects of further transformation into biographical pedagogy and integration with the biographical psychology