A compreensão da realidade na pesquisa-ação: um estudo comparado entre Brasil, Moçambique e Portugal
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2025-08-27
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Silva, Nazareth Vidal da
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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The study analyzes the interests underlying the assumption of understanding reality for transformation in academic production and in the discourses produced by author researchers in the context of Brazil, Mozambique, and Portugal. It adopts action research as a research perspective, maps studies on action research produced between the period 2010-2023 and takes nine studies carried out as the corpus of analysis. It analyzes the interests that emerge in written arguments—internship reports, dissertations, and theses—and in spoken arguments—discursive spaces—defended by author-researchers regarding the understanding of reality for transformation in the different modes of action research across the countries studied. It contributes to the systematization of the training process in partnership with students and faculty from the School of Education at Eduardo Mondlane University. It is based on the concepts of rationality, constitutive interests of knowledge, communicative action, mutual understanding, provisional consensus, argument and discourse of the Theory of Communicative Action, by Jürgen Habermas. It is developed based on qualitative research and adopts the epistemological and methodological perspective of International Comparative Studies through "action research." It was organized into six stages, namely: conducting research ethics; surveying and mapping productions in institutional contexts; documentary research to understand the context of production; technical-scientific internship at the University of Minho in Braga/Portugal; organization and development of discursive spaces; and collaboration movement with Mozambique. The academic productions were organized based on a schematic framework inspired by the principles of the paradigmatic matrix. Data analysis was conducted through argumentative circles, based on the authors' arguments in written texts and discursive spaces, based on the Theory of Communicative Action. Mapping highlights the importance of understanding contexts to understand the specificities of each location. It finds that interests emerge in the arguments written and expressed by the authors researchers, and that the contexts (political, educational, and institutional), in addition to the assumptions of the intention to change, the relationship between researcher and participant, and the research process, influence the ways of acting in the movement from understanding reality to transformation. It considers that, to understand and analyze the epistemological and philosophical assumptions of action research, a willingness to collaborate is essential. It concludes with the thesis that an emancipatory interest permeated by strong communicative action among the participants (authors and actors) in understanding reality in action research is fundamental for a significant transformation of conceptions and actions in the contexts investigated.
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Estudo comparado internacional , Teoria do agir comunicativo , Pesquisa da pesquisa-ação , Compreensão para transformação da realidade , Interesses constitutivos do conhecimento