Abstract

VALLE VAZQUEZ, Ana María. Educational research: issues and multidisciplinary nature. Theoretical and philosophical reflections. Prax. Saber [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.29, pp.166-182.  Epub Oct 16, 2021. ISSN 2216-0159.  https://doi.org/10.19053/22160159.v12.n29.2021.114.

The text is the result of a reflection that aims to investigate educational research and its multidisciplinary nature. At first, it is assumed that, on the one hand, the problem of educational research is related to the conceptual and theoretical-methodological meaning that arises from thinking and from the critique to the questions about education. On the other hand, the prefix multi- not only refers to abundance and diversity; it also alludes to the intersections, detours, irruptions, and linkages of the disciplines. Secondly, educational research is reviewed from the point of view of the disciplining of knowledge as a struggle between different types of knowledge that is very characteristic of the modern world. The theoretical-methodological approach adopted is hermeneutics. It is considered that any interpretation must be protected against the arbitrariness of the occurrences and, rather, must look at the "thing itself". In this case, this interpretative perspective is aimed at understanding the issues of educational research and its multidisciplinary nature.

Keywords : educational research; research methodology; multidisciplinary; pedagogical knowledge; educational philosophy.

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