The method in Marx and research in education: onto-history determinations of reality

Abstract

The essay approaches the method in Marx as an ontology of the social being, that is, as a theory of knowledge that understands that the existence of reality is independent of what we think about it and its reflection, although it is not constituted as a mirror, seeks to apprehend the real through successive approximations. The study aimed to analyse the repercussions of the Marxian method and its contributions to educational research. The scarcity of works that approach research in education based on the support offered by historical-dialectical materialism was questioned, whose scientific premise of intelligibility of concrete reality allows the development of clues provided by the object's own movement. For this purpose, theoretical-bibliographic research was used, based on classic and contemporary authors of the Marxist framework. Finally, the need for knowledge production processes to be linked to the possibility of social transformation is emphasized, since the Marxian methodological premise raises a concrete perception of the social determinations of bourgeois sociability and the consequent overcoming of its forms of exploration.