A pesquisa no ensino superior: um ensaio sobre metodologia científica

This article aims to discuss the process of scientific research aligned with the process of education in higher education. In this way, it tries to explain about the activity of scientific initiation that occurs in the universities, within the constitutional perspective of the academic tripod of teaching, research and extension. The usefulness of the history of science as a way of presenting scientific achievements to students will be discussed. The characterization of the types of knowledge and the categories of research and scientific procedures are other items presented, in a didactic way through reinforcing examples, in order to favor the understanding of the concepts involved in carrying out the research processes. Keywords: Science. Education. Methods. University.