Ensino e pesquisa de epistemologia em programas de pós-graduação stricto senso da área de Ciência da Informação no Brasil

Abstract

It presents the results of a research and scientific initiation project developed between 2018 and 2021. It aims to analyze how the discussion about epistemology takes place in graduate programs in Information Science in Brazil. Descriptive, bibliographical and documentary research, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, without chronological delimitation and using thesis and dissertations as sources of information. As results, are presented: the context of postgraduate studies in Information Science in Brazil and the Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertacoes; data on the teaching of epistemology in postgraduate studies in Information Science in Brazil; the main subjects and references in the thesis and dissertations on epistemology in the area. It is concluded that researches on epistemology in graduate studies in the area are few, but constant and focused on the description of its foundations, concepts, history and identities, and should advance in epistemological research on the principles of Information Science and its place in the debate with other sciences.