Relationship between qualitative and quantitative method in textbook research

Abstract

The paper discusses the possibility of applying qualitative method in textbook analysis. It studies the cognitive principles of science and their methodological grounding. In the first part of the paper, the authors start from the assumption that the principle of objectivity requires the usage of quantitative semantics exclusively. Content analysis, understood as a combination of qualitative and quantitative method, is discussed in the second part of the paper. The example of specific analysis of democratic contents in secondary school textbooks is the subject of the third part of the paper. The fourth part of the paper includes an overview of the limitations of language analysis as one kind of quantitative method, as well as of the insufficiency of quantitative measurement. These limitations can be overcome by the procedure of methodological 'cooperation'.

U radu se razmatra mogućnost primene kvalitativnog metoda u analizi školskih udžbenika. Ispituju se saznajni principi nauke i njihova metodološka utemeljenost. U prvom delu rada, autori polaze od pretpostavke da princip objektivnosti nalaže upotrebu isključivo kvantitativne semantika. Analiza sadržaja shvaćena kao kombinacija kvalitativnog i kvantitativnog metoda razmatra se u drugom delu rada. Primer konkretne analize demokratskih sadržaja u srednjoškolskim udžbenicima predmet je trećeg dela rada. Četvrti deo rada obuhvata osvrt na ograničenosti analize jezika kao jednog vida kvalitativnog metoda ali i na nedovoljnost kvantitativnog merenja. Ove ograničenosti mogu se prevazići postupkom metodološke 'saradnje'.