In this curricular unit, students of the Degree in Tourism Management are introduced to relevant methodological reflection, in its different constituent parts ? epistemological bases, research questions and methods ? for the scientific domain of Science. Thinking about the choices that build the paths of research, the relationship between the research subject and their contexts and narratives, objects, other subjects and their active subjectivities, numerical data and statistics, parameters and variables, requires at least a reflective initiation. The sequence of stages in which the subject's curricular contents are arranged - epistemological framework, ways of structuring and enunciating questions, and diversity of methods - produces as an integrated result the preparation of students in order to fulfill the fundamental objective of the curricular unit: to do appropriate methodological choices based on a consolidated background.
Semestral
1.Preliminary notions of scientific research
2. Planning the empirical research project in tourism
3. Literature Review
4. Construction of the Theoretical Reference Framework
5. Design of research methods
6. Data Collection
7. Data processing and analysis
8. Discussion of results and conclusions
9. Organization and structuring of scientific work
10. Structure and presentation of scientific works
Contextualize research in social sciences.
Develop skills for building scientific knowledge.
Understand qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches.
Understand the stages of scientific research and its theoretical framework.
Develop competence for designing research instruments.
Conceptualize a tourism research project
Mandatory
Theoretical classes/practical classes (development of case studies, document analysis, discussion of topics in the classroom), study visits, tutorial guidance.
Português
Não
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Ribeiro Mithá Gabriel (2018). Novo Manual de Investigação, Contraponto Editores
