Abstract

LEIRO, Augusto Cesar Rios; SANTOS, Adriana Pinheiro  and  REIS, Daniela Santana. Contrastive research through dialectic lens. Rev. Educ. Questão [online]. 2023, vol.61, n.69, e-32310.  Epub Dec 19, 2023. ISSN 1981-1802.  https://doi.org/10.21680/1981-1802.2023v61n69id32310.

The permanent scientific production (and profusion) in the field of social sciences and education, amid the macro-social context of great uncertainties and changes that the world is experiencing, requires continuous reflections and debates regarding old and new questions about the research method(s) in the field of social sciences in general, and education in particular. This article aims to highlight problematizations around traditional methodological approaches and to present theoretical and methodological outlines of contrastive research, conceived here through the lens of three core categories - totality, contradiction, and mediation -, taking as its epistemological and methodological point of view the materialist and dialectical perspective. In search of the goal, a study of these theoretical categories was carried out, as well as analysis of methodological outlines, with a view to the proposition that singles out studies of a contrastive nature. As the foundations of this text indicate, the dialogue with the reader is essential for the corpus of the study.

Keywords : Scientific methodology; Contrastive research; Dialectics; Historical and dialectical materialism.

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