La lógica situacional de Karl Popper y la metodología de la investigación social y educativa

• Main Author: Lluís Ballester
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asociación Interuniversitaria de Investigación Pedagógía 1999-06-01
• Series: RELIEVE: Revista Electrónica de Investigación y Evaluación Educativa
• Subjects: methodology; paradigms
• Online Access: http://www.uv.es/RELIEVE/v5n2/RELIEVEv5n2_1.htm

The reflection on the methodology of the investigation can not forget the contributions to Popper, especially by his formulation to a specific model for the educational and social sciences, that of the situational logic. It is considered a form of methodology based on detailed explanations of the initial conditions (analysis of the social situation: context and subject), the theoretical and empirical models elaboration, and the consideration of the rationality principle. A methodology based in the situational logic is able of rationalising the methodology of the educational theories, as well as recognize the paradigms not positivists so important in the educational investigation