The socio-educational reality of social educators is complex, diverse and difficult to analyse, describe and interpret. Thus, it is necessary that throughout their academic training, they acquire a series of competences that will enable them to develop their subsequent professional activity.
By learning and applying different research methodologies in this subject, social educator will be able to select the most appropriate one to solve the problems they will encounter in his/her future working environment, without forgetting that this agent, within his/her working environment, will have to research to find possible solutions to improve the context in which hi/she carry out his/her work activity.
The diversity of epistemological conceptions applicable to different social situations will be a source of information for the social researcher, allowing him/her to determine which is the most appropriate for solving problems. It is not intended to establish an order of importance between the various modes of research, but rather it is the research problem that will determine the choice of one methodology or another, making it the most valid for this type of problem. All this is meaningless if we do not ask and answer the question: What do we want to achieve?
There are many instruments that they can use to obtain data and, therefore, it is necessary to be aware of the wide range of possibilities. A good professional will be the one who knows how to choose, in each circumstance, the techniques and instruments that best suit the situation. It is necessary to deepen their knowledge and mastery of the different tools at their disposal. Thus, this subject will analyse the main techniques and instruments that can be applied to the socio-educational field, indicating their fundamental characteristics, the advantages and disadvantages they present and the most appropriate circumstances to put them into practice.
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