De jaleco branco: a prática científica de pós-graduandos em um instituto público de pesquisas. / Of white coat: the practice of science graduate students at a public research institute.

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2009

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This study analyses the scientific training of postgraduate students in the Gonçalo Moniz Research Centre, a unit of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Bahia, paying special attention to those experiences which form the future scientist. Before addressing the core study we discuss the origin of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and its research institute in Bahia, in order to locate the study context and the scientific practices of this community within a broader perspective. The study was undertaken through semi-structured interviews, participatory observation and documentary analysis. We stress the fact that the laboratory is considered the main context for the development of postgraduate students, thus the study does not take account of the formal contents of the training courses. What is of interest is the students daily activities, since we consider the laboratory to be the location in which they learn to articulate mechanisms specific to the production of technico-scientific knowledge, from performing the experiments which will form the foundation of their work at the end of the course, to the relationships which they establish with their supervisor and other members of the laboratory team. We conclude that it is through these experiences that postgraduate students develop their practices and acquire their understanding of the structure of a scientific career.

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scientific practices formação do pesquisador research training ciencias humanas scientific career carreira científica prática científica

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