La investigación en las facultades de educación en Bogotá: representaciones sociales de los profesores

Abstract

The present work has like purpose analyze, comprise and interpret the social representations of the professors of the faculties of education of the city of Bogota, Colombia, around the research. The methodology used is of qualitative character. It worked with 225 professors of five universities. The technicians of recolección of information were surveys, individual interviews and focal groups. The programs Evoc, Atlas.ti and Alceste supported the analysis in the process of triangulation of the data. The results indicate that the social representations on the investigation tend to express by means of characteristics, on the one hand, critical and analytical; and on the other hand iconic, productivistas, pessimist, little propositivas, sentimentalistas and isolated. The concept of faculty of education on which the professor supports to speak of the research is that related with an institution exclusively of professors. The research like ‘lifestyle' is something wished, but little matured in the academic circles.