Problematizing the institution research in the university and the psychological practices: epistemological and ethical questions

epistemological and ethical questions

Abstract

Through a broad review of the literature, we aim to problematize the research in the university and, particularly, its relations with psychological practices, considering they as an institution. What is the purpose of the research developed in the university academy? What are some of its main problems? From a theoretical and analytical epistemological and ethical framework, we distinguish a set of diverse modalities of research carried out in the university: the research of traditional positivist court; action-research based on historical materialism; the practices of psychosocial intervention based on pedagogical/psychologizing nuance; the research-intervention referenced by the Philosophy of Difference and the intercession-research oriented by a complex transdisciplinary perspective, as another way of producing social transformations, acting in the microphysical plane of the institutional establishments where the worker is inserted. The relations between academic research and the plan of psychological practices make up diverse figures and also produce ethical and social effects different. It could be a criterion for guiding the choice of one or another of these modalities