Os loci epistêmicos e o método analítico como forma de compreensão do ensino e da pesquisa em organização do conhecimento no Brasil do século XXI

Abstract

The research deals with the epistemic loci and the analytical-conceptual method as a way of visualizing the teaching and research in Knowledge Organization (KO) in the 21st century. The study of epistemic loci is inserted in discussions about the academic and scientific environment, about the existence and the space where the discourses of theories, methods and techniques are structured, approach and distance. The analytical-conceptual method has as its main proposal to expose the nature and structure of concepts through the idea of conceptual triangular analysis, in which the concept is analyzed based on its referent and its essential, accidental and individualizing constituent characteristics. The study addresses the course and development of the Knowledge Organization in the academic and scientific field and brings up epistemological questions about this space of practices and knowledge. Presents this Knowledge Organization imbued with theoretical and methodological inputs, and competences to analyze other spheres of knowledge, but also able to analyze itself, in this case, as a meta-space. It starts from the understanding of the Knowledge Organization, under an analytical lens (formal), as a space still quite divergent regarding its corpus of practical action and its web of terms, concepts and definitions. However, from a discursive perspective – from the loci – one can understand a space of communicability and commensurability theoretical-methodological-pedagogical being consolidated exactly on these thematic and terminological disagreements. The notion of conceptual divergence can be demonstrated through the analytical look, since analytical methodologies make it easy to uncover divergences. The notion of communicability, through disagreements and ongoing struggles, open and plural in their signifiers and meanings, as well as their uses, can be observed through the discursive look, that is, the discovery of epistemic loci. The considerations presented so far lead to the configuration of the following research problem: where and how are the epistemic loci of discourses on 21st century knowledge organization theories, methods and techniques established? This research presents the thesis that the 21st Century Knowledge Organization is a space of knowledge rooted in all Information Science and has an excellence function in the area, which is to create bridges with other areas of knowledge through its processes and classification products in their broad sense of organizing and representing particular knowledge or information. It points out as a general objective: to interpret the universe of the Knowledge Organization in 21st century Brazilian science, from teaching and research, in order to understand its discourse. Thus, in order to achieve this objective, it has been defined the following specific objectives: to identify KO‟s methodologies that can be applied in the analysis of its loci; identify KO‟s descriptors present in selected scientific publications; identify the themes of KO in the description of disciplines that teach KO in Brazilian Postgraduate; comparatively analyze KO‟s teaching and research; describe KO from a historical and conceptual perspective. The research corpus consisted of descriptions of disciplines that teach KO in 13 postgraduate programs in Brazil and bibliographic sources from 4 scientific journals for the publication of research covering KO‟s themes. In all, 71 articles and 114 subject menus were adopted for the analysis, indexing and classification of thematic content related to KO, existing in them. The thesis presents an epistemological synthesis of KO in the contemporary world, starting from a current, but broad cut, of publications that approach and discuss the KO in Brazil and in the world in this century, that is, from 2001 on.