Development of the toolkit for comparative studies: potential of cognitive pedagogy

Abstract

Special role belongs to search and regulation of one’s own developmental strategies on the way of systemic transformations of educational systems. The relevance of the research is due to the need of creation of logical structure of output knowledge of both comparative and benchmarking research in pedagogy. Adaptation of successful experience and practices needs reconsideration, checking and the expected analysis at an educational transfer, which is not always possible in the absence of formalization. Authors suggest toolkit of cognitive modeling for the solution of a problem of formalization and logical structurization of data of the comparative research. Being grounded on methodology of cognitive pedagogy, we generalize features of cognitive modeling of educational processes or situations, and we would like to suggest an algorithm of creation of cognitive model, visually and formally reflecting the studied process. The cognitive map reflecting regularities and inter-connections of concepts of subject domain is constructed based on the example of the data of the comparative research of a system of university-teachers’ professional development in China, obtained earlier. The received model is capable to specification of any level in need of carrying out further analytical and comparative research. The article is intended to researchers, teachers, dealing issues of comparativistics, pedagogical qualimetry, and university-teachers dealing with their professional development.