A perspectiva epistemológica em Antonio Gramsci e a pesquisa de políticas educacionais

This paper aims to present the investigation of the political milestones in the work of Gramsci, to discuss certain challenges that "educational research" must face. It is assumed that research in education is also a way of teaching / hegemonic relationship can not be neutral in relation to culture, but primarily as a producer of culture and vision of more elaborate world. Studying issues of epistemology Gramsci requires clarification of what the author understood by organic intellectual and investigative praxis. The thought of Antonio Gramsci takes up the Marxist principle of totality to understand the intellectual activity. Given his conception of praxis category of intellectual gained another meaning. His definition of organic intellectual has become crucial to investigate the research of educational policies and not only educational policies themselves. In this sense, the educational policy is taken as a particular science, it deserves the same criticism that Gramsci does sociology and economics, ie, produces partial truths that must be re-appropriated as part of the entire research operated by the philosophy of praxis.

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