A mediação como categoria metodológica na pesquisa educacional

Abstract

The article analyzes the category of mediation in dialectical historical materialism from the studies of Saviani (2015) and Ciavatta (2014), problematizing the different approaches of this category in social research, and, in particular, in educational research. The course that follows will be to present the different perspectives of mediations in the dialectical method and how each methodologically contributes to the apprehension of a scientific object In this sense, the objective is to discuss the category of mediation as the search for nexuses and the relationships that intertwine and that explain how a given reality materializes, and through which mediations a given reality was configured It presents a study of the mediations for the implementation of the reform of high school, materialized in Law 13415 / 2017, as the expression of the steps of an investigation on an educational policy It ends with the argument that the mediation category, as part of an investigation method, although it is applied in different perspectives by the authors, there is a unity between these different approaches, considering that this category is the process by which it is possible to make explicit the relations between the particularity and the totality of the phenomena studied in social research for the apprehension of the real.