The Training of Researchers: Trade and Relevant Knowledge in the Face of Advances in Science and Technology

Abstract

The present work examines the scientific rationality of the knowledge the aspiring researcher builds and how it is related when they interpret reality. The goal is to approach the relationship between science and research, in the national context. And it suggests that the researcher in training establish a dialogic relation between traditional knowledge and institutionalized formal science to attend the environmental problems. The supporting method is symbolic interactionism. This achieves the purpose of accounting for where and for what are the social meanings constructed in which often scientific thinking and training process relate. In a exercise comparable to trade training, the argument surrounds the collective construction when analyzing realities that present as complex and make impossible their fragmentation to be studied; it requires reflection about the epistemic foundation from which the young researchers in training draw, and the implementations of this knowledge; an evaluating action that recovers ethical values in its implementation, where multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary work are the way to unravel complex phenomena. Also, this work includes the analysis of techno-science as instrumentation of the scientific knowledge, applied to agricultural production and its direct relationship with natural resources. It is finished with approaches such as the need for consideration of the epistemic foundation and incorporation of communal knowledge. Overcome the irreflexive incorporation of techno-sciences in higher-education institutions, and the need to rethink ethical principles in their research activity, in an exercise of approach complex phenomena without the possibility of fragmentation to be completely understood and where interdependence forces transdisciplinary approaches.