Collaborative praxis in the process of networked research: the methodological debate on the qualitative approach

Abstract

The praxis of collaborative research of the Center-West Researchers Network enables the assessment of data collection in doctoral and master theses and the elaboration of different clippings, analyses, debates, and communications on professors related to the academic production of postgraduate programs in education in this region. In one of these outlines, it is questioned: what do the quantitative and qualitative data on the research approach in theses and dissertations on professors in the center-west reveal? How do they contribute to thinking and differentiating qualitative approach in the phenomenological and historical-dialectical materialist method? The purpose is to analyze these approaches to improve the construction of theoretical-methodological frameworks. The meta-analysis will be used to know, understand, and construct possible methodological paths to meet certain needs of those who seek collaboration as a means of formation, in order to cancel the deviations from the chosen investigative path. It is inferred that awareness and the critical-reflective attitude impose themselves as conditions to build systematized knowledge.