Methodological Basis of Training Students of Higher Pedagogical Educational Institutions for the Organization and Conduct of Scientific and Pedagogical Research

Renewal of educational processes requires raising the level of methodological culture of young researchers in the field of pedagogical knowledge, their mastery of scientific and pedagogical scientific tools.First of all, let's draw the attention of young researchers to the peculiarities of the methodology of pedagogical research.At the same time, the opinion of scientists should be taken into account, in particular the position of the leading methodologist in this field, V. Kraevsky, who noted that the methodology of pedagogical research, unlike didactics or methods of teaching school subjects, is designed to investigate the methods and means of not practical, but research activities in the field pedagogy.The scientist singles out a number of issues related to the general characteristics of the modern state of the methodology of scientific knowledge, since such characteristics are necessary for young researchers to orient themselves in the field of pedagogical research.The first of these questions is about the normative nature of modern methodology.Two types of methodology are distinguished as the teaching of methods of scientific knowledge.Young researchers need to realize that any methodology performs regulatory, normative functions.This, in fact, is its purpose.But methodological knowledge can appear either in a descriptive (descriptive) or in a prescriptive (normative) form, that is, in the form of orders, direct instructions for activities.Note that when we talk about the description, we mean the scientific-cognitive description -a set of knowledge in a certain field of phenomena, including here also a theoretical explanation, when it is not only about the experience under consideration, but also about the inner content (essence) of the investigated processes.