A possible dialogue between the School of the Annals & analysis of content in historical research

Abstract

The question that guides this article can be outlined as follows: How do the Escola dos Annales and Content Analysis dialogue in historical research? Based on this issue, the narrative structure brings epistemological approaches between both methodological choices and weaves problematizations related to mistrust and resistance around them. The text is the result of a bibliographic research, in which scholars were consulted dealing with Interdisciplinarity, Research in Education, Content Analysis, Method and Historical Theories. The discussion included: the place of historical and / or historiographical research; Annales School and Content Analysis in qualitative research and the search for the implicit in sources. Finally, the study highlighted possibilities for dialogue between Escola dos Annales and Content Analysis, differentiating them, respectively, as methodological approach and data analysis techniques. Although the possible hierarchy between methodological approach and analysis techniques is pointed out, however, in this text, it is opposed to the hierarchy between sciences, as well as to the plastering of the ways of doing research.