La educación y la investigación en ciencias sociales se hallan en un profundo proceso de cambio, que pone de manifiesto la inadecuación de las prácticas tradicionales de elaboración, transmisión y aplicación del conocimiento para enfrentar las necesidades formativas en la sociedad actual. La formación académica especializada, individualista y competitiva; la desvinculación entre esa formación académica y la práctica profesional posterior; la separación entre teoría y práctica, entre investigación y educación en los procesos educativos; la anulación del diálogo entre los distintos intereses y saberes sociales; son algunos de los problemas que demandan... (Ver más)
Education and research in social sciences are in a deep process of change that shows inadequacy of traditional practices of elaboration, transmission and application of knowledge to face the formative necessities in current society. Specialized, individualist and competitive academic formation; disconnection between that academic formation and later professional practice; separation between theory and practice, among research and education in the educational processes; the annulment of dialogue between different interests and social knowledge; they are some problems it demand innovative solutions it should come from new research and education... (Ver más) perspective. It is the challenge that we concern in this article, in which intends an participant education and action/research perspective to respond to the current problems in constructing knowledge and making formation to experts in social topics. Exposition is sustained in two axes: epistemológic-scientific and strategic-practical; on one hand the basic postulates of a process of participant education-research are exposed, and on other, we advance in elaboration of operative proposals to transforming the investigating and educating work. Everything is illustrated with examples of the pedagogic experience developed during more than 10 years in different courses.