Abstract

LOPEZ DE PARRA, Lillyam; PRADA-ARIAS, Edwin Ramiro  and  MARIN-ARANGO, Deina Jasbleidy. Social representations on research practices. Conditions in the university. Entramado [online]. 2019, vol.15, n.1, pp.192-211. ISSN 1900-3803.  https://doi.org/10.18041/1900-3803/entramado.1.5405.

The aim is to identify the Social Representations on research practices of students and teachers of a University Institution. This study relies on descriptive and explanatory principles. The observation units were the six teachers and nine students of the last semester of the academic program of Spanish Language and Literature. The applied research techniques were the semi-structured interview, focus group, hierarchical tris, and content analysis. In the results, the core of representations were the terms research development and reflective process. The most significant peripheral elements were the relationship between theory and practice, community and experience. Differences were evident; students considered the practices as strategies, methodology, and projects. Teachers associated these practices with a reflective process, but not transformative. Results expressed content, another element of the representations, as institutional, curricular teaching and learning, and personal conditions. The evaluative aspect considered practices as a challenge with ethical exigency. This study concluded that higher education has social pressure to focus its action on research to educate competent professionals in the solution of context problems. Hence, the importance of providing an enabling scenario for performing and analyzing research practices.

Keywords : Social representations; research practices; university; investigation; investigative conditions.

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