O caráter histórico da pesquisa em educação

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Abstract: This paper aims at discussing aspects of the educational research in Brazil, mainly the relevance of the historical dimension for the studies policies for education.  Reflecting on the historical character of educational research refers to the need to know the ways in which the forms of historical determination, derived from social relations that configure the human existence. Inquiring the processes of knowledge production requires to consider that the research object, the researcher him/herself, theory and method are all historically produced within concrete social relations. The work with categories of the historical materialism - totality, contradiction, mediation, hegemony, reproduction, social class, capital, labor – contribute to the appropriation of the central nexus that give meaning to the empirical research, to the relations and social forces correlations that determine the object of study. This theoretical and methodological perspective provide important tools for the study of the current policy education in Brazil and of the historical role of education in production, reproduction and contestation of social relations of production. Keywords: Education Research. Brazil – 2000-2019. History. Education policy.