An investigation source in Education: the records in the CAPES theses database

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Renata de Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Maciel, Lizete Shizue Bomura
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educação e Pesquisa
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/ep/article/view/28054
• topic: Banco de Teses CAPES; Fonte de Pesquisa; Resumo; Estrutura dos Resumos; Preconceito; CAPES Theses Database; Source for research; Abstract; Structure of abstracts; Prejudice

This article presents results of an investigation made with the CAPES Theses Database - Abstracts, a multidisciplinary database offered through the Internet by CAPES - Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel. By congregating basic information about stricto sensu graduate researches - Master and Doctorate levels - developed in various areas and sub-areas of the knowledge by Institutes of Higher Education, both private and public, from throughout the country since 1987, this database, via its abstracts, constitutes a wide-ranging research tool, and also an important instrument for the publicizing of Brazilian scientific knowledge. Considering the scope and relevance of this database, and noticing some discrepancies in the data recovered from the system, as well as some lack of information which, although perhaps not capital, were certainly necessary for those doing research or seeking preliminary information for studies, an exploratory study was developed with a sample of its records, based on documental research, and initiated through the keyword "prejudice". The present essay is a direct result of that study, and has as its main purpose to give an outline of the findings on the formal aspects of the records and structure of the abstracts. It also has as an objective to contribute to a critical-reflective debate that will promote actions toward the solution to the problems encountered.