Tese
Práticas de compartilhamento do conhecimento na pós-graduação stricto sensu em Ciência da Informação: uma leitura a partir da Teoria Fundamentada nos Dados e da Abordagem Clínica da Informação
Fecha
2021-01-27Autor
Rosilene Moreira Coelho de Sá
Institución
Resumen
The main goal of this thesis was to investigate the potentiality of using the method
proposed by Grounded Theory (GT or TFD, in Portuguese), combined with the
exercise of symbolic interpretation proposed by the Clinical Approach to Information
(CAI or ACI, in Portuguese), in the construction of a methodological strategy
applicable to the field of Information Science (ISc or CI, in Portuguese) in general and,
more specifically in investigations regarding the sharing of scientific knowledge. In
practical terms, based on the application of this strategy, it was sought to build a
broad reading, according to the perceptions of masters and doctoral students from
two postgraduate programs of different epistemological orientations, on knowledge
sharing practices exercised by them during the development of strict sensu research.
It was believed, therefore, that from that background, it would be possible,
simultaneously to test a new methodological proposal, to contemplate a privileged
view of a cut of the multiplicity of trends in the ISc area, of its reflexes and of its
contributions to the area of Knowledge Management based on what is practiced at
the heart of these programs. In this sense, the following question led the research:
“Will the combined use of GT with the symbolic interpretation proposed by CAI, will
allow to reach an in-depth reading of the complexities surrounding the knowledge
sharing practices that occur during the development of strict sensu research in
Science of Information and of the imagetic representations that the students
developed about the field due to their different epistemological orientations?”
Specifically, it was proposed to investigate the understanding, affections and
representations that researchers in training have on the concepts of Information
Science and knowledge sharing practices; furthermore describe, according to the
interviewees' perceptions, how knowledge sharing practices relate to the construction
of knowledge during the development of their research; to identify if knowledge
sharing practices are influenced by the representations that students have developed
about the field as a result of their different epistemological orientations; and, finally, to
establish an analysis of the contributions that the combined use of GT with the
symbolic interpretation proposed by the CAI offer for the improvement of the
methodological strategies for the investigation of the scientific knowledge sharing.
The universe of research is the master's and doctoral students of two postgraduate
courses in Information Science - from a federal public university. To achieve the
objectives, the qualitative methodology was used through interviews with a semistructured
script. The method used to select the interviewees was through nonprobabilistic
random sampling and the research is supported by Grounded Theory
(TFD) - chosen because this perspective has the potential to not only allow the
compilation and analysis of the data as a result research, but, based on these results,
extrapolate them in the construction of a theoretical proposal - and in the Clinical
Information Approach (ACI), which offers an alternative for access to symbolic and
affective content involved in infocommunicational interactions. The literature review
covers the themes: Information Science, construction of scientific knowledge,
knowledge sharing, as well as studies on the affectivity and emotions intrinsic to the
knowledge sharing process. These contents were chosen because of their relevance
in offering guiding elements that made it possible to scrutinize the research results.
The analysis of the imagetic representations (built on theoretical, historical, social
and cultural bases) that the students have in their own area, as well as the
relationships built during the master's and doctorate and that became the basis for
the knowledge sharing practices in these two strict sensu graduate programs in CI
allowed, as a result, the creation of a mirror of a typological collection that pointed out
interesting guidelines for knowledge sharing for other programs in this area. The
representations, relationships and other elements such as the categories established
in this thesis evidenced, in the context of Information Science, the perceptions of
students about the area and, by demonstrating how mediations occur in knowledge
sharing practices during the construction of research, they indicated a range of
possibilities to improve these practices within the programs. The combined use of
CAI and GT suggested the design of a on Psychosociological Data Grounded Theory
(PDTG or TFDP, in Portuguese) as a strategy to capture the interviewees'
intersubjectivity considering the affective, social, cultural and historical context of
infocommunicational phenomena and their complexities.