Teaching research in education and use of technology: an experiment on modality in blendedlearning course in the Pedagogy

Abstract

This article describes an experience on teaching of research in education in a course of Pedagogy. I has associated an on line learning methodology, by using a LMS platform, together with planned face to face meetings, directed towards the learning of research, bringing the theory-practice association as a principle, in the scope of a 60 hours discipline. The experience is divided into two category fields, thematic and pedagogical, that involves justified choices. In the thematic field, the debate on scientific research is presented, divided into the epistemological, technical-instrumental and normative dimensions. The empirical research perspective is chosen in the tradition of the scientific methodology unity. In the pedagogical field, the blended learning methodology is chosen with its consequences in the public university context. It reaches the conclusion on the adequacy of the experience, but indicates to some limitations of the institutional context, specially to teachers and students. It seems clear the impossibility to think of research for undergraduate students, only as a discipline, but it has to take into account the perspective of research education through the whole course.