Abstract

CARIA, Telmo H.. An itinerary of apprenticeship on the theoretical construction of knowledge as an object . Etnográfica [online]. 2007, vol.11, n.1, pp.215-250. ISSN 0873-6561.

The construction of theoretical research objects assumes the explicitation and rationalisation of the autobiographical trajectories that are inscribed in the professional culture of research in Social Sciences. These trajectories show that the relations between theory and data are not linear, as they are interspersed with cognitive conflicts. So there is a culture of problems in routine scientific practice that should not be confused with the rules and conflicts of legitimating the scientific output in a given social field. The autobiographical trajectory described takes the concepts of knowledge and professional culture as a core theoretical object. For this, a theoretical problem is developed that begins and ends in the question of socio-educational inequalities, and which has protractedly been contained in the interaction between the modalities of the contextual meaning of practical-contextual knowledge and in the professional recontextualisation of knowledge.

Keywords : contextual meaning of knowledge; knowledge-information; professional recontextualisation of knowledge; mobilisation of knowledge; socio-educational inequalities.

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