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29-48

Authors: Bianney Xiomara Cedeño de Sánchez

The nature of the investigation describes the hermeneutics as integrated to knowledge to potentiate the human dimensional component. I took up a stance in a hermeneutics-comprehensive horizon to interpret the teacher’s performance and the meanings he gives to his teaching practice. In addition, I translated an open interview and a participant journal that was applied to the main actors of the investigation. The translation of these sources allowed for their organization in a conceptual network constituted by investigation units, categories, typologies, and integrated concepts to configure a theory elaborated from the interpretation of the teacher training and practice, based on his lived and felt experiences. The results obtained revealed, as one of its main findings, the existence of a sensible thinking in teachers. This thinking is dissociated from a practice and a theory that epistemologically defines knowledge in the teacher formation processes.

59-72

Authors: Lya Sañudo

The educational research aims at understanding the experiences gained within the teaching context and providing educators with a structure of knowledge that is theoretical, dynamic and complex so that, through this, teachers are capable of reporting about the educational phenomenon to society. This work addresses the study of meaning and its construction as a result of reflection and theorization of experiences lived inside the educational context. Thus, it presents phenomenology and hermeneutics as a support for educational research in the processes of description and understanding of situations that are empirically experienced in educational environments. Throughout the work, we address a broad discussion about the meanings: their importance, conceptualization, the construction of discourse for their documentation, and their interpretation through phenomenology and hermeneutics.

101-114

Authors: Petra Lúquez de Camacho, Otilia Fernández de Celayarán

The researcher has to understand that science and its construction are not ethically neutral processes as there are always appraisal commitments in both the research of scientific knowledge and its dissemination. It is, therefore, important to reflect upon the purpose of the sciences when defining its objects of study, methods and activities as conditions for obtaining their interests. The wisdom modes of knowledge are pragmatic, intuitive, emotional, affective, aesthetic, and ethical-moral. In these, the common denominator is the symbolic systems generated of one form or another by people. Such arguments reveal the relevance of the content of this work in light of the ethical need to promote a science of consciousness, responsibility in which various qualitative research methods are committed. Specifically, we propose, through a review of the literature, to present epistemological, conceptual, theoretical, and methodological orientations to the research community interested in the knowledge and application of the Grounded Theory method. We hope that this work serves this research community as a support in designing their projects and the procedural systematization of all their phases; clarifying that, due to the nature of this type of study, no guidance is a rigid and inflexible model. On the contrary, each design is indicative of the creativity and ingenuity of their authors. Therefore, we invite researchers to step into the inviting and committed generating of theory research, from the interactivity and intersubjectivity of the actors involved in a complete experiential introspection praxeology.

135-147

Authors: Yorelis J. Acosta

The changes experienced in Venezuela in recent years have led to protests and collective actions across the country, capturing the attention of researchers in this field, who have mostly addressed this collective action from a theoretical angle. Based on an argumentative review of the main theoretical approaches to the issue, this work aims at identifying common elements of collective action and protests in Venezuela so that, in addition to its usability in the theoretical approach, these elements can serve as a guide in its methodological design. Considering these elements, this article proposes guidelines that will allow a better record of events in order to reduce the gaps found in the data sources of Venezuela. The proposed guidelines have initiated in the review and analysis of news archives about the protests, followed by the collection of testimonies of the people involved, and a description of events that includes details such as the identification of the event, information about protest actors, action, demands, identity, political variables, and the articulation of the incidents and actors.