|
Wider educational and historical contextPage 1 of 1
The examination of the above-mentioned sources should finally be placed within the wider educational and historical context of the period under study. The researcher is expected to rely far more heavily on existing bibliography for this part. Aspects of the educational system, such as teachers’ training, the teaching of other humanities subjects, statistics of student population and retaining figures, extra-curricular activities, may help refine his/her findings by reinforcing some explanatory hypotheses while undermining others. Finally, no educational system exists within a political and historical vacuum. The wider historical context (political regime, historical circumstances) may explain many of our findings’ aspects – quite a few of them possibly also as unintentional – as much as our findings aspire to add to our knowledge of it and qualify it. |