O software IRAMUTEQ como ferramenta metodológica para análise qualitativa nas pesquisas em educação profissional e tecnológica

Abstract

This is a qualitative research, which seeks to investigate what are the bibliographic references that discuss the themes: school and democracy in Technological Professional Education (EPT). This work presents the experience of using the Iramuteq software to analyze the bibliographic references in the context of an ongoing research in the Master in Professional and Technological Education (ProfEPT), from the Federal Catarinense Institute for Blumenau - SC. The Web of Science and Scopus data platforms were consulted and 157 articles related to the topic were selected. The abstracts of the articles were processed and analyzed using the Iramuteq software. The research showed that the Iramuteq software is an important support tool for the analysis of texts in qualitative research and is available for free. The results are interesting and with statistical significance, even in the face of a large volume of references. The theme is expanding (number of articles / year), however, with the help of the software it was found that this scientific production does not deal with EPT. The study contributed to the knowledge of new methodological instruments, in addition to pointing out new perspectives to deepen the bibliographic and documentary research related to the research object that will be useful in the development of future works.