In order to comprehend the diversity and complexity of social
reality's phenomena, it is important to analyze its subjective and
objective dimensions
Delimited by diverse perspectives of approach to knowledge
In Education, for example, phenomena are multidetermined and
related to social processes
A research object is the research problem
Which must be a relevant social issue
It is defined thinking about the relationship between
subject/object to produce knowledge regarding that object
What some authors propose
Diaz Barriga
(1997)
Theory of science only wants to explain facts, by ignoring many
relationships and forgetting the comprehension of the fact or the
object, that's why it cannot account of a specific knowledge object
Espinoza y Montes
(1997)
To construct an object it is necessary a social-epistemic reflection, of
relation and analysis of knowledge, of the inquiry about the creation
and production of the same in the historical process of research
Dávila Aldás (1996)
For the analysis of the educational structures, it
starts from the social theory, within a
spatio-temporal delimitation, as a result of a
socio-historical process
De Alba
(1996)
She proposes two kinds of theories
The theory of the object knowledge.
It points out the epistemological relationship between subject/object
and its incidence on curricula; and the study object of social science
and natural science which emphasize in the comprehension and
explanation respectively
The theory of particular objects in
Education
Concerned about the genesis, actual tends and
proposals of some author on curricula
It is necessary to think about these questions
What justifies the research?; How deep?; Is the research feasible?; Will the
research be impacting?