Abstract

MIRANDA, Marilia Gouvea de  and  RESENDE, Anita C. Azevedo. Sobre a pesquisa-ação na educação e as armadilhas do praticismo. Rev. Bras. Educ. [online]. 2006, vol.11, n.33, pp.511-518. ISSN 1413-2478.

Action research, a type of research frequently employed in education, is approached from the perspective of its contributions and its double risk: practicism and instrumentalization of theory. Starting with a broad discussion on the conditions and possibilities of knowledge in social sciences in the modern world, action research is conceived as a proposal for research and intervention in the social reality. After discussing the trajectory of action research, the article distinguishes two strong tendencies in this modality of research: the French and Canadian approaches, emphasizing René Barbier and André Morin respectively; and the Australian approach, whose main exponents are Wilfred Carr and Stephen Kemmis.

Keywords : Action Research; Educational Research; Theory and Practice.

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