Metassíntese da temática deficiência na psicologia em grupos de pesquisa do CNPq

Abstract

This study aims to map the production of knowledge and researchers of several areas of knowledge that investigate disability in Brazil, through of the metasynthesis, and specifically, to know the research groups and researchers, to describe the institutions, leaders researchers, areas of knowledge, regions, year of creation and status of the groups, identify and analyze the theoretical and methodological aspects of the productions published by the researchers. Therefore, a metasynthesis was carried out through five phases: Exploration, Crossing, Refining, Description and Interpretation. The Directory of Research Groups in Brazil (DGP) of CNPq was used to search the research groups and the Lattes Platform to identify the academic production of leaders researchers in the article format. Corpus is constituted of the research groups registered in 2017 and articles produced between the years 1991 and 2017. There were 38 research groups from four major areas of knowledge: Humanities, Health Sciences, Applied Social Sciences and Engineering. Regarding the geographical location of the research groups, the majority of them are concentrated in the Southeast region with 57%, the state of São Paulo was highlighted with 19 groups. In addition, 68% are linked to public institutions and 32% to private institutions. As for the quantitative of published academic productions, the Human Sciences present the largest quantity with a total of 556 articles. Being 435 articles in Education and 121 articles in Psychology. With regard to the degree of training of the participants of the research groups, the doctoral degree, concluded by 258 participants. In 1995, the first group was created by Medicine at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Regarding the status of the research groups, it presented the total number of 29 certified groups, but there is one group in the group, two groups are not updated and 6 are excluded. The results of the analysis of 40 articles of the leaders and vice-leaders related to the 3 groups of Psychology indicate 19 papers that do not explain the use of some theoretical perspective, Winnicottian Theory Perspective with 10 papers, Socio-historical Theory Perspective with 2 papers, Historical-Cultural Theory Perspective with 8 papers and Theoretical Perspective of Social Representations with 1 paper. In addition, 11 papers that did not indicate the method used. On the other hand, 29 studies indicate the use of the qualitative method through semi-structured interviews, observation and questionnaires, and the research participants are children and adults. The studies cover the concept of disability, Special and Inclusive Education Inclusive, accessibility and employability, and highlight national and international rights assurance documents. We reaffirm the relevance of studies from on-line platforms. CNPq’s DGP and the Lattes Platform are fundamental for the development of studies in several areas of knowledge, as well as in our studies the Research Group "Epistemology and Psychological Science": to know, to synthesize to advance the knowledge and to present the historical movement of the productions.