In this article the concept of subject in the works of Vigotski and Bakhtin and their circles is revisited in a dialogue with the LIC (“Linguagem, Interação e Conhecimento” - Language, Interaction and Knowledge) Research Group Production Team, with its 19 years of experience in the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Considering the other self as an essential part of the whole dialogic process that permeates Vigotski and Bakhtin theoretical frame, the core of methodolical work of the LIC group is outlined. Anchored in the historical and dialectical materialisms, the research subject(s) are understood as responsive, dialogic and active participants. With no pretentions to format a concept of subject according to the russian theorists, the conditions for the possibilities that the role assigned for both to language allows thinking the production of meanings in their multiple dimensions interconstitutive aspects are focused: single and collective, subjective and objective, biological and cultural, historical and dialectical.
concept of subject; research in education; Vigotski; Bakhtin