THE PROBLEM OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH OF PERSONNEL IN THE CONTEXT OF UNIVERSAL PARADIGM OF THE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

Abstract

The article is a summary of the results of scientific exploration, dedicated to the advancement and features of the research of pedagogical personalities in contemporary historical and pedagogical science. The article presents the genesis of the term “personalities” in the context of relationships with other sciences, the essence of the concept of “pedagogical personalities” in the modern history of pedagogy, concretized idea of teaching personalities as a customized model reconstruction of the national educational thought. The features of the personnel’s study in the context of scientific knowledge are shown as an attempt to identify those key aspects of the creative heritage of a particular person that really had an impact on the further development of scientific discourse and the emergence of innovative phenomena in it. The methodological foundations, contents, patterns, lines of study of pedagogical personnel are in the light through the views of leading domestic and foreign scientists. The author analyzes the origins of becoming the biographical method as a tool of scientific research of the personnel, conditions and specific use of biographical method in the national historical and pedagogical discourse and methods such as the historical and retrospective; chronological analysis, pedagogical hermeneutics, interpretation and synthesis, scientific reconstruction of certain provisions of scientists’ pedagogical views.