PHENOMENOLOGY AND HERMENEUTICS IN DISCURSIVE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS: AN EXERCISE IN POSTGRADUATE SCIENCE EDUCATION

Abstract

Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA) is an analysis methodology that has increasingly gained space in the field of qualitative research. Faced with this, a postgraduate program in Science Education created a discipline to dedicate itself to the study of DTA. In it, after a moment of theoretical study, a practical exercise was carried out based on the perceptions of master’s students regarding the question: What is this, DTA for postgraduate students who study DTA? The responses were analyzed collectively using DTA, which resulted in three emerging categories. The objective of this article is to present one of these categories that points to the philosophical assumptions of Discursive Textual Analysis. In it emerges the perception that these assumptions imply a stance on the part of the researcher who exercises a hermeneutic awareness and lets the phenomenon show itself in its otherness.