The methodology on educational research as an object of study in Chihuahua's research production

Abstract

This study gives an account of the status of the research production related to educational research methods in Chihuahua, during the decade of 2009-2019. First, it presents a descriptive cartography about the type of production, the dissemination methods, the way in which it was produced, the academic space in which it was discussed, and the institution where it was produced, where the researchers who debate in this field are located. It presents a qualitative analysis of the production that was found, which is judged from a critical and complex perspective. The perception of the method, the use of theory, the subject’s role and the conception of the research process was detected. Three categories are developed, two of them of action-research, the first on technical and practical approaches applied in teacher training, in the knowledge of educational practices or in specific aspects such as the development of professional practices or in learning assessment. The participatory approach was also found, attached to sociology and critical pedagogy, which visualizes it as a strategy to know and transform the social and educational reality in a fair way. About interpretive methods, only arguments about historical methods were developed, others such as hermeneutics or ethnography are mentioned, but not addressed. It is concluded that the methodology of educational research is still pending on the agenda of researchers in Chihuahua.