Abstract
This essay reflects on the the Participant Research as a moment of construction of new social representations in researches at school. The insertion of the researcher in a non hierarchical way, reflection and collective construction are basic premises that insert this model in the role of psychosociology and fit the assumptions inherent in the Theory of Social Representations of Moscovici and the participatory model of research. At the end of this reflection, a research proposal will be presented joining the Participant Research and Theory of Social Representations. Serge Moscovici, Pedro Demo and Nasciutti were the reference authors used for the design of the present work. As a result, it is shown the perfect adequacy of these models and the relevance of this way of doing research for the construction of more democratic spaces in the school environment, that propitiate the construction of socially legitimized identities.
Keywords:
participant research; social representations; psychosociology; participatory planning