Triangulation resource as a data validation tool in qualitative educational research

Abstract

This study aims to reflect on the production of scientific knowledge and its bases, in order to highlight the methodological conceptions that guide studies and research in education, with special attention to the use of data triangulation and methods, as being fundamental for the development. Of the objects of study, reflecting on the processes of organization, execution and analysis of academic investigations. In this regard, the issues involving both the research universe and the universe of education and training of new researchers face challenges in understanding the role and space of each tool, requiring a firmness of elucidation to ensure the progression of knowledge and quality. Of the results. In this regard, triangulation is presented as a field capable of helping researchers to have fertile soil in their analysis. It brings the concepts of method, research and science, supported by a bibliographical research with theories of Max Weber (1997), Santos Filho & Gamboa (2009), Sobral & Bretas (2016), Descartes (2007), Locke (2016), Santos (2010), Coutinho (2011), Creswell (2007), Macedo, Galef, & Pimentel (2009), and the end Santos (2019). In this process, the differentiation and clarity regarding the use of triangulation before the method and methodology are imperative for the researchers' daily life, especially in the field of education, due to its specificity in relation to objects of a social, cultural and human nature. Finally, such reflections are necessary to the complex and multiple thinking of research, helping to consolidate the profile of researchers capable of developing an ideal, valid and concrete method, supporting the development of studies and generating benefits for society.