The epistemological status of pedagogy validated as specific object of study – specific normativity – specific research methodology

Abstract

Ștefan Bârsănescu aims to identify and analyse ”the unity of contemporary pedagogy as science”, tested by the means of fulfilling to some epistemological conditions, that confirm the fact that this social and humanist science has a specific study object, a specific normativity, a specific research methodology. The author makes the analysis in conditions of fundamental pedagogical research, both historical and theoretical, all the way through his entire pedagogical work, and, especially, in his extensive work, ”The Unity of Contemporary Pedagogy as Science” (1936, 1976).