A FORMAÇÃO DO PESQUISADOR E A CONSTRUÇÃO TEÓRICA DA PESQUISA EM ÁLVARO VIEIRA PINTO: O JOGO DAS CONTRADIÇÕES DIALÉTICAS ENTRE SER E PENSAR

Abstract

What to research and how to research are frequent issues in graduate students’ routine, especially when they are admitted in master’s degree programs after an educational experience that did not include research. Having not been able to participate in Research Groups and undergraduate scientific research projects, students reveal their difficulties on the different stages of a research process or even in their critical reading of scientific texts. This article aims to reflect on the theoretical construction of research and the critical education of researchers. To do so, this study revisits the book Ciência e Existência (Science and Existence)
(1969), in which author Vieira Pinto addresses the existential conception of scientific work as a creating product and tackles issues essential to understanding science, scientific research, and the development of a researcher’s conscience. Based on this author’s grounds, this article focuses on the possibilities of thinking about the ways of research in the production of graduate students’ knowledge, with theoretical reflection and experimentation in the play of dialectical contradictions between being and thinking as a starting point.