Updated criteria on educational research methodology: A bibliographic approach

Abstract

Within the framework of the complexity of the current reality, university professionals must be able to turn research into an essential tool as leaders in social processes. The objective was to assess updated criteria of various authors on elements of the methodology of educational research. The methodology was based on the qualitative approach with the use of data to approach some sources on digital platforms. The consultation of articles in impact journals was privileged, taking into account the immediacy of the results in this type of publication. The conception of the documentary research made it possible to apply the strategy of collecting bibliographic information for its subsequent content analysis with the use of bibliographic files and content sheets. In the results, the bibliographic analysis of the sources allowed us to affirm that the updating in topics of educational research and its methodology is a marked interest among those who reflect in written form their ideas about this important field of social sciences. The reading of the texts consulted allowed us to understand that the changing reality of the educational fact implies constant modifications in the scientific gaze from the inquiry around the educational problems. En la discusión se expresó que el estudio bibliográfico realizado evidencia la necesidad de la actualización constante en las temáticas de la metodología de la investigación educativa, a partir de su concepción como ciencia social en constante transformación y en función del objeto de estudio y el problema científico a resolver.