Educational collaboration: a methodological proposal for teaching and research based on pedagogical robotics, genetic epistemology and liberating education

Abstract: This paper discusses different meanings of collaboration and cooperation based on Piagetian and Freirean concepts among others. We also present a proposal for resignification of these terms in education, which resulted in two processes: educational collaboration and educational cooperation. By combining educational collaboration with pedagogical robotics, university students and a professor started with the context of civil construction to design a robot that was able to identify electrochemical corrosion in concrete structures. Two categories emerged from this process (questions and suggestions) and were analyzed in their form and content through a scientific research method proposed in three stages, based on educational collaboration: hierarchical ratio, categorical ratio and subcategorical qualitative analysis. The educational collaboration culminated in collaborative learning and proved to be a contextualized teaching method in which there is active student participation. Collaborative learning was evidenced by joint construction of knowledge to construct the robot, a result of the rebalance between individual and social factors.