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This article attempts to contribute to the knowledge of the configuration of experiences, discourses, and professionals in education: knowledge constituted with regard to the relation between (auto)biography and education in Argentina. The purpose is to explore the conformation of that territory marked by "zones of contact", articulations, and tensions among (auto)biographical narratives, pedagogical experiences, and teachers' research/training/action. This paper draws a map of their peculiarities and describes the contributions for the educational reflection and practice of a space of intersections, mixtures, and inventions: fertile soil for pedagogical action and thinking, and now presented as one of the platforms for doing another kind of educational research and delineating other modes of "methodological and political experimentation" in the field of teacher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to present, on one hand, the main theoretical categories and notions that, as a frame of reference, sustain a group of recent studies--produced in the European and Anglo-Saxon academic world--on the emergence of education as a disciplinary field. On the other hand, the article offers a panoramic view of the processes of the global institutionalization of education as a disciplinary field; such a view is provided by analyzing national cases from Europe and the United States that serve as examples of the use and potential of the presented categories and notions. The paper aspires not only to reveal production that on the most part is not translated into Spanish, but also to enrich the regional historiographical and theoretical discussion that will permit advances in the study of the origins of education as a disciplinary field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the result of a research about the life and work of the French educator Philippe Meirieu and it tries to show some discourse aspects of pedagogy in France and its relationship with the sciences of education. Pudgy is not the science of education as it appears in other conceptual regions or pedagogic traditions (German or English). Science of education in France appears institutionalized in 1967 and since that date pedagogy inhabits in its bosom as a concept rather than as a disciplinary space. With the aim of understanding the complex discourse of pedagogy we have consulted magazines, books, papers and some doctoral theses in science of education. Among the most important magazines in our field of reference we can mention The French Magazine of Pedagogy (Revue Francaise de Pédagogie), Magazine of Science of Education for the New Era (Revue de Sciencies de l'Education Pour la Nouvelle Era), the Pedagogy Notebooks (Cahiers de Pédagogie), the Magazine Knowledge's (Revue Savoirs). These magazines appeared on the French university stage some years after the birth of the science of education. As Pedagogy appears as a given concept, it seems that this question is neither the spring nor the interest of the theorists or practicals or experts; it has each day less place in the science of education debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes an invitation to an interior journey through the early stages of educational research. The intention is to share on the basis of a concrete example; in this case, the investigation is about a case study in the Teacher Training Faculty of the University of Barcelona. Within this process, this paper discusses some of the following dilemmatic questions: how to start to organize and to shape the initial ideas, how to target from the complex analysis to a single focus of inquiry, how to move from thematic to convert it in a research problem, how to delineate the research perspective taken, how to build the main questions comprising each dimension of analysis, how to define positions on the real or fictitious dilemma of objectivity and subjectivity in educational research, and finally how to deal with and decide on the selected information gathering techniques. Within this decision making process, also provides tables which graphically and visually solve the main dimensions and questions of the thesis problem and the methodological positions assumed. In conclusion, the article points, out that although on this occasion narrate the initial phase of decision making, the methodological questions of inquiry is not exclusive of this period, but go over throughout the research process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]