The Educational Character of Human Life Based on the Biographical Method

Abstract

Since the dawn of time, people have felt the need to write down their fate. Many works were created regarding the human population, individuals, a specific group of people. Their goal was to leave a trace, consolidate the life and activity of people living in a given time and in a specific social, historical and cultural situation. This type of memories is called existing documents. For the needs of research, in addition to the existing documents, there is a second category, the so-called documents intentionally made. Analyzing such documents is a research technique in pedagogy, as well as a method of research in sociology and psychology. This method, called biographical, is a qualitative study and requires the researcher to have analytical, technical, interpretative, statistical and descriptive skills. In pedagogy, it is assumed that the variation of the biographical method is a monograph and an analysis of individual cases.