Research methodology: A walk of the researchers
The Venezuelan university as an institution still
needs to dynamize its processes and link its collectives to the construction of
a new model of society, from its field of action, both in the training of
competent professionals, with a sense of belonging, capable of contributing to
their environment as eminently social, supportive, responsible beings, but also
in the production of relevant research, with practical solutions for the
collective, so that science and technology are not a means of exploitation but
of liberation.
In addition, it should be kept in mind that research
does not have a pre-established recipe with a straitjacket character. Thus,
qualitative and quantitative research are methodological denominations that
have to do with the way in which information is codified, that is, with data
collection and analysis techniques. These denominations do not allude to a
particular epistemological model, nor to types of research, since there are
different models that have preferences for the use of numbers as a way of
coding and interpreting reality.
The research methodology, as a fundamental strategy,
is the researcher's own path. It should be emphasized that all research implies
generating new knowledge, not only for the researcher, but also for all those
directly or indirectly linked to it; however, new knowledge is not only the
exclusive product of research, it can come from other
complex cognitive processes inherent to the human being.
In consideration, it is necessary to foster in the
teacher the aptitudes to contribute from a critical, reflexive, orienting
position and from participatory approaches to the definition of research lines
that later, once developed, contribute to the construction of society and the
consolidation of the homeland. It is convenient then that teachers rethink
research as an art that moves the sublime experience of everyday life, where
the work is oriented towards an education capable of developing individuals
with full awareness in their constant relationship with the historical, social,
cultural and political context in which they develop in order to maintain the
enthusiasm to approach ancestral, popular, dynamic knowledge, full of vitality
that strengthen the new vision of liberating and emancipating education.
Carol Elizabeth Ianni-Gómez
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7390-114X