The OIIIIPe construction process: theorethical and methodological issues

Abstract

The International Observatory of Inclusion, Interculturalism and Pedagogic Innovation (IOIIPI) seeks to develop research, teaching and extension in a collaborative network, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with the purpose of training education professionals who produce critical, transformative educational knowledge and practices which are guided by the principles of inclusion, interculturalism and pedagogical innovation. The discussed concepts refer to a theoretical and practical contribution, from which several relationships need to be recontextualized, aiming to overcome/minimize exclusion and to promote the participation of every individual or group that is in a situation of exclusion (SANTOS, 2013). Several methodologies are used, such as digital ethnography, bibliographic documentary research, and collaborative research. Thus, the work constitutes a challenge, once at the same time that it broadens the communicational possibilities, it presents barriers that make difficult both the access and the participation of some teams. In view of the above, we will present theoretical and methodological questions that permeate the IOIIPI researches, as well as the results arisen from the first data collection instruments developed and applied by the researchers.