Research: A practice linked to Life

  • 2017

Do you know what the Research is ? Where do you develop Research ? And why research is linked to life itself ? Surely, it also happens to you that you think that Research is a complicated issue and that there is no measure to develop it, or perhaps speculate, that those who are responsible for the Investigation They are the specialists. I invite you so that together, we develop the reasons why, Research is a practice really linked to everyday life. Welcome!

What is the investigation?

la Research constitutes us subjects, makes you and I, are alive

All human beings, we have the ability to reflect and discover new realities, either of himself, or of the surrounding world. Through these experiences, we have been able to build methods, procedures, processes and protocols, in order to consolidate and qualify our own reflections and discoveries.

It means that both me and you are thinking, it means that we continuously seek to know, that, in other terms, is to conduct Research . Even more, life itself is a great investigation, because it is an innate attitude of human beings!

Let's see a bit of Etymology. The term Investigate, comes from Latin (research, research, research, research), which, in turn, is derived from research, meaning search and track. Then, this verb comes from the noun vestigium, vestigii (sole, footprint, vestige). It means that, according to the terminological origin, to investigate means to go in search of the traces, in order to find the truth .

Under the previous premises, I could tell you, that Research constitutes us as subjects, makes you and I alive . When you reflect, think about yourself, and act in the world, it is because you want to transcend time, death and our own limitations. That is Research!

After much search, imagination, intuition and creativity, man has felt the need to implement tools that prevent, in the midst of reflection and inquiry, be lost, and must start again. Likewise, he observed that he should systematize and elaborate knowledge in an orderly manner. Thus , the method is born spontaneously and intuitively and through systematic and rational constructions .

According to the previous ideas, Research is the art of letting us surprise and preserve the capacity for astonishment . Immediately, tolerate the frustration that causes doubt and uncertainty, assuming a position of architects and beneficiaries of the knowledge of humanity.

Research is a commitment to history, in which you and I must assume a place in it .

Research, practical wisdom

"Research is the art of letting us surprise and preserve the capacity for wonder"

Each reality lived within the practice of particularity is unique, complex, unstable and changing, and also generates uncertainty.

I want to make myself understood through the following statement. A teacher who has in his school group, children with problems of indiscipline and learning. Each situation of each child is individual, unique, possibly, has different causes and circumstances . Precisely, when developing intervention and investigation of each case, you are developing an art that is externalized in practice.

However, in the midst of the practical response, conflicts of values, interests, purposes and objectives can be created. The task of the educator would be to discover how to make sense of complexity, bring uncertainty to a manageable conflict, identify and define problems within disorder and confusion, and invent conscious choice against the problems of values ​​that can be exhibited.

Research, Reflection in Action

Through the Investigation turned into reflection, the way of dealing with the problem and giving a definitive solution to those eventualities presented is devised.

When a competent teacher comes across unusual cases, surprise and uncertainty arise immediately. Then, through the Investigation turned into reflection, the way to face the problem and give a definitive solution to those eventualities presented is devised . Thus, the teacher is transformed into an investigator in the practice tissue.

Then, the impression of surprise and uncertainty, becomes the exploration of solutions and the interest in creating Research and understanding each situation, in order to change it .

Really, much to explain and indicate. For now, the idea was that you had a different concept and more experience of the Research. Likewise, that you understood me the reason why, Research is part of your own life.

Each situation of each child is individual, unique, possibly, has different causes and circumstances. Precisely, when developing intervention Investigation of each case, is developing an art that is externalized in practice ”

Author : William H. Estrada P., Editor in the Great Family of hermandadblanca.org

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