SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION:

a mapping of scientific production in the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (DLTD); CAPES Catalog and Directory Of Open Access Journal (DOAJ)

Abstract

At graduation, the discipline of Scientific Methodology is the first contact with the world of research for the vast majority of academics. Discussing scientific methodology is caring about the process of producing knowledge and developing students in the face of this new challenge in graduation. The discipline of Scientific Methodology points out the paths to be followed for the construction of the research. The present work aims to carry out a mapping of the literature produced on scientific methodology in undergraduate courses. Among the specific objectives are: To list the educational institutions; indicate the geographical distribution of scientific production and describe the thematic approaches using keywords. The present study is characterized by state of the art, as a bibliographic mapping was carried out in order to build a picture of the scientific production published in the Theses and Dissertations Library (BDTD), CAPES Catalog and the Directory Of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) on Scientific Methodology in Higher Education. Initially, a total of 99 documents was found and after filtering the texts, 13 documents were selected: 1 thesis; 6 dissertations and 6 articles that composed the final corpus of analysis. Among the main results is the southern region with the highest number of publications. Regarding the topics addressed, there are studies carried out on the implementation of the Scientific Methodology discipline in the EAD format for on-site courses.