Acta Universitatis Szegediensis de Attila József Nominatae Sectio Paedagogica et Psychologica 19. [antikvár]

Educational research InstitutionaIn Hungary, as in other countries, the major bases for educational research are the educational research inetitutes and the education departments or institutes of higher education. Some interdisciplinary educational research /e.g., on psychology of education, sociology of education, economics of education, etc./ is also carried out at institutions for the various individual disciplines.Pour large central educational reseaz'ch institutions exist in Hiingary: the National Institute of Education, the Educational Research Institute at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Educational Research Centre of Higher Education, and the Institute of Popular Education, Besides, there are national research centres at the National Education Library /doing research on comparative education/, the National Institute of Vocational Guidance, the newly-established National Research Centre for Educational Technology and various institutes for research on methods of vocational training.Among the education departments /or institutes/, the most important are those of the universities and colleges of university status. Special mention should be made of the departments of education at three universities /Budapest, Szeged and Debrecen/, which look back on a long tradition. They train teachers for senior secondary schools. Other universities with education departments are the Technical University, Budapest, and the Agricultural University, Gödöllő, where engineering teachers for the specialized training colleges for