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The reality is complex, diverse and difficult to analyze, describe and interpret, which is why it is necessary for you to acquire a series of skills throughout your academic training that will allow you to develop your subsequent professional activity. For such circumstance, the learning and application of diverse methodologies of investigation, that are planned in this matter, will allow in one future to select the most suitable one to solve the problems that will be in their next labor scope. Without forgetting that within your work environment you will have to investigate in order to be able to approach possible solutions that improve the context in which your work activity is developed. The diversity of epistemological conceptions applicable to the different social situations will be a source of information for the researcher, allowing him/her to determine which is the most adequate to solve the problem he/she is facing. The aim is not to establish a priority or an order of importance among the various modes of research, but rather it is the research problem that will determine the choice of one methodology or another, making it more valid for this type of problem. All this has not made sense if we do not ask ourselves and answer the question: what do we want to achieve? There are many instruments that we can use to obtain data and, for each link, it is necessary to have knowledge of the wide range of possibilities. A good professional will be one who knows how to choose, in each circumstance, the methodologies that best suit the situation. Therefore, it is necessary to deepen the knowledge and mastery of the various tools at our disposal. Thus, in this area, the main methodologies that can be applied to the educational field will be analysed, indicating their fundamental characteristics, the advantages and disadvantages they present and the most appropriate circumstances or moments to put them into practice.
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