The flexibility of research design: Reflections on the challenges and opportunities of research in/from the classroom

Abstract

This writing brings together a set of reflections regarding the data production process, from obstacles, challenges and opportunities identified around the implementation of the planned methodological strategy. To achieve this objective, we develop the following expository sequence: first, we describe the planned techniques and their implementation method together with the obstacles and contextual changes; secondly, we give an account of the reformulation of the field work and, finally, in the Final Considerations we outline possible interpretations, among them the lack of a problematization on the mediatization of the methodological strategies and their implications on the population to which we were addressing; Also, the contact channel used for the discussion groups -formal and according to the university-, perhaps turned out to be far from their daily communication dynamics. At the same time, it offers us some clues about other of their perceptions: about scientific research in general, about this research in particular, and even about the institution they entered -the University to which they are going to study, but that demands us, challenges us, questions us.