Year: 2020
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Background: Management of educational processes requires objective data about their condition.Ukrainian education declares the principle of orientation to the needs of students.Therefore, empirical analysis of students' life models, in particular in such extreme situations as quarantine in 2020, is an actual problem.Purpose: substantiation of the possibility of using of quite rarely in modern sociology of education method in the empirical analysis of the problems of introducing distance learning in extreme conditions and the students reactions to that, namely analysis of students' personal documents.Such documents may be essays written by students about their experience of living under quarantine.Methods: comparing the heuristic possibilities of the traditional sociological research method (survey) with the proposed method of content analysis of students' essays written according to a free style scheme developed by researchers.Results: The main advantage of the proposed method of information collection is its rather low level of detachment from the everyday life of students, which allows increasing the interest of respondents to participate in the study.In this way, the researchers will get more representative data. Conclusion:The advantages of the proposed method of empirical analysis of students' life models during quarantine dominate over its limitations, which should also be taken into account.Its application will allow not only to form a representative information base for the management of an educational institution, but also will activate students and become a media event that can be used to form a positive image of the university.
Author: Viktor Savka
Institution: Lviv Polytechnic National University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W3024256087