FROM CHARACTERS TO PEOPLE: AN ETHICAL EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROACH TO RESEARCH ON EDUCATION

Abstract

The aim of this article is to determine the thematizations that affect the subjects of education within a research, and to propose different ways to resolve them. For that end, the text is divided into two sections: the first, named The Characters: the masks of the thematizations, has to do with the place where the researcher deals with the thematizations, which present three types: the bureaucratic, the thematization that emerges from the research process and the thematization experienced by social subjects in proximate or familiar contexts. The second section, called People, their infinite and their point of view, attempts to offer methods that allow the subject to be seen as an absolute “other” in all the research process. The article ends with a request to the researcher for applying the critical reflexive approach when examining the different thematizations analyzed.