The cooperative research

Abstract

The Collaborative Research to wants to be as an alternative of the design ((R and D)) in Education and one of some kinds of the Action Research. E. E. U. U. can be considerates as the first country in these works. The article wishes to do a short exposition of the historic evolution of this way of Research for to considerer its beginnings in relation at the Action Research and its last crisis; the establishment of the interactive design IR and DT (Interactive Research and Development on Teaching) of Tikunnoff Ward and Griffin in nineteen seventy five in a international favourable contex for a resurgence of the Action Research for to give a stronger at the educative and social change by the way of the Research; finishment its present. Of the study of the works of their principals figures (Griffin, Oja, Pine, Smulyan, Tikunnoff, Ward, etc. ) we can take the elements which we can look as Keys for a definition of the Collaborative Research; the ways and designs of Research useds and the conditions for that the process can be done. After of this, we can think about of the specific problems in relation at this way of Research: those that to come at the beginning of itself; those that are given around of the process of communication, and very much those that are connected with the trust"worthiness of the scientific knowledge showing in every one of these possible ways of solution showeds since the news kinds of the Educational Research.