El sentido de la investigación educativa
- 1 Departamento de Educación. Universidad Isabel I
ISSN: 1138-6908, 2603-5928
Year of publication: 2016
Issue: 19
Pages: 33-48
Type: Article
More publications in: EA, Escuela abierta: revista de Investigación Educativa
Abstract
Qualitative investigation emerged as an alternative to the rationalist paradigm since between the different existing disciplines in the social field there are a series of problems, interrogations, questions and restrictions which cannot be tackled in every sense through quantitative methodology, therefore, a new methodology emerges from anthropology, sociology and ethnography, among others.This paper presents a theoretical revision on the qualitative method of investigation since its origin in the middle of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th, where its efforts were directed towards demonstrating its validity and rigorousness in the interpretation of data, up until the present day, with a very different panorama where its validity is not questioned, and becoming one of the most used methods within Social Sciences.