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RISCAL, Sandra Aparecida. Social reality and research challenges in education. Psicol. educ. [online]. 2010, n.31, pp.45-52. ISSN 1414-6975.

This article's theme is social reality and its challenges for research in Education and their objectives are the implications that technicization and rationalization that are more and more implied on educational activities. The over-growing insertion of a rationalized social practice is being institutionalized an has been forming, informing and refurbishing the entire social sphere. As a result of this process, we can perceive educational institution - from Kindergarten to Universities - now normatized, regulated and institutionalized that make even harder every possibility for building new educational practices.

Palavras-chave : Rationalization of educational practices; educational technicization; educational sphere institutionalization.