By Anibal Velásquez makes no sense to teach research methodology with a traditional discursive method, and follow the guidelines of an ordinary book.
Scientific research is an activity that involves the application of a method, but in the development of a cognitive process product of a scientific mind.
activation process is done by a high motivation to learn the environment and a need for change. This motivation coupled with perseverance is what has allowed that few men have been the protagonists of progress.
What good is knowing the scientific method if you have ideas or problems to investigate, a hypothesis to prove or defend a theory.
consider it more important to develop a research attitude and thoughtful scientific minds to discover the problems. This attitude coupled with the ability to display imagination hipótesisque will guide the research.
Thus begins the journey of discovery and problem-solving. Investigative Attitude
Those who think that to do research first need to know research methodology, and magically, through the application of recipes, you can do research, they are wrong.
Those who think that to be creative or to do research leading edge or border, have to spend many years so you can discover something new and needed to be a specialist or professional to do, so they are.
Those who prefer to leave research for those born spontaneously with an attitude research, who believe that has nothing to do with their personal aspirations, and not everyone has the opportunity to be pioneers, to build a future, discovering new knowledge and solve problems.
A person may have acquired a good theoretical and good training in research methods and techniques and yet vital attitudes and certain personality traits may hinder the investigation.
Man by nature is a challenge and transform their environment, it is rather unnatural that man is not. Hence the need to assume a scientific attitude, not as being for when doing science, but as vital attitude in all circumstances and times of life.
What is and what this research attitude? In general terms, can be defined as the willingness to stop in front of things to try to unravel. Scientific work, in substance, is to formulate and try to solve problems. This is what some called "reflection of the researcher" and called Pavlov reflex "What is this?". This question and question guides and sensitizes our ability to detect, to admire, to ask. "Oh, the filthy mental inertia, the inadmirabilidad of the ignorant" Ramón y Cajal exclaim against those who were unable to stop with things, admired and questioning.
have made numerous research papers in order to determine the characteristics of a creative scientist, and has not found a definite pattern, although they all have in common a high motivation and a remarkable perseverance.
search attitude and insatiable curiosity, leads to permanent "interrogative tension," open to doubt and to review what has already been discovered and challenged by what is known, this leads to an existential attitude to life and science are not separate. Both are not only dissociated but every one should serve to enrich the other, given that life is a totality and science aspect of the whole.
scientific thought, Bachelard said, "is an active workbook, a book at once bold and prudent, a book which we would like and a new improved version, consolidated, reorganized. This is really a thought of being in growth path. " Therefore, the scientific attitude is the attitude of the man who lives in a painstaking investigate, questioned by a reality he admires and wonders.
not believe that because a student, or professional in a particular specialty will not be able to criticize and analyze and propose solutions in other fields, remember that great discoveries were not made by specialists.
Did you know ... he who first described the microscopic organisms and closely was not a professional, "scientific" formal, let alone a man related to the biological sciences ... was a magnifying lens polisher, by their curiosity beyond facts discovered the first optical microscope, and the first organisms.
... that Pasteur was not a biologist or doctor, a chemist, and discovered vaccines, bacteria, described diseases, etc.
... a medical student who first discovered the Gram stain, dyes tested in cells, found in some samples contaminated with bacteria, when using certain colors a stained and others not, so it was a great contribution to differentiate bacteria
... also a student who discovered a method for the production of aluminum, which is currently made this one of the cheaper metals ... another medical student showed that Oroya fever and Peruvian wart were the same disease, for which were infected to death and used for the description of the disease ... and another student was the one who discovered the infectious agent Chagas disease in Venezuela.
Photo: Lissette, my daughter, at the Museum of Manitoba, Canada, August 2007
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