Solving Social Research Problems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Creating Technological and Research Capabilities with Action Research

Type Journal Article - International Journal of Social Science and Humanity
Title Solving Social Research Problems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Creating Technological and Research Capabilities with Action Research
Author(s)
Volume 1
Issue 3
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2011
Page numbers 183-187
URL http://www.ijssh.org/papers/32-H052.pdf
Abstract
—In order to participate in the global world through
designing and proposing the use, appropriation or development
of technologies to solve social problems, Latin America and the
Caribbean, and Mexico City in particular, require an increased
development in scientific and technological capabilities in order
to thus enhance opportunities for more and higher quality
knowledge representation. Action Research, a knowledge
construction process in the context of collective problem solving
is linked to Telematics Technology because it makes possible the
creation and operation of the necessary virtual context for the
researching-teaching-learning interaction process in the
transformation process of the action scheme. The action scheme
is explained from a constructivist perspective as the theoretical
basis for a social science academic group that transforms the
capacity to design technological prototype software application
during the solution of a research problem. In particular, we
describe the TIDI-LAOMS prototype, which is fundamentally
our study instrument, designed through Action Research by the
analyzed group in Mexico City, and used as a virtual context
and interaction means in the knowledge construction process of
the same group.

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