Research practices at elementary school: discussing some methodological implementations

Abstract

This article presents and discusses the research and formation work as a collaborative program at a public school in the interior of San Paulo State which serves students of Elementary and High School Level. By following the activities of collective pedagogical work, with the objective of understanding how the collective spaces are constituted and used as experiences of training by teachers and board members, the test put the focus on important theoretical and methodological aspects for the construction and monitoring of this research itself and others interested in collaborative research using audio record and transcribed data: the relationship between external researchers and teachers of elementary school; the teachers training as a counterpart of the research; the construction of ties and collaboration between the parts; the interaction between theory and experience; the socialization work and the interpretation of recordkeeping activities; the relationship between authorship and co-authorship. The analysis point to the need of bringing together the daily research practices of training collective work and also to the need of setting up an “Interpretative Community” through collective work that reorients the pedagogical practices of the school and the research itself and articulates the different points of view.