Abstract

GONZALEZ, Alberto Matías  and  HERNANDEZ ALEGRIA, Antonio. Positivism, Dialectic Materialist and Phenomenology: Three Philosophical Approaches from the Scientific Method and the Educative Investigation. Rev. Actual. Investig. Educ [online]. 2014, vol.14, n.3, pp.502-523. ISSN 1409-4703.

Through this essay authors intend to expose some considerations related to the place and presence of positivism, materialist dialectic and phenomenology as approaches of the scientific method, and at the same time to identify its value to the educative investigation. These three orientation lines are not considered as the only ones or the most important one. It is just that they have a considerable space in the researcher’s believes and in nowadays academic debate and they can be bridges to assume new philosophical ideas. The reflection is made from a perspective that leads to think over the Latin American reality and where basic arguments of the interaction between philosophy and the scientific method are expressed. This work has been carried out from the revision of a wide bibliography that includes Master degree and PhD thesis and listening to different opinions from outstanding people who take education as field of action. From very heterogeneous perspectives the different social and philosophical and social thought tendencies of the last centuries have been linked to the evolution of the scientific way to produce knowledge, that’s why to think over it offers an opportunity to grasp the criteria that can be useful for scientists. To have good philosophical arguments to justify the researching actions makes a positive impact on the scientific activity.

Keywords : Positivism; dialectic; materialist; phenomenology; education; educational research.

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