The significant-heuristic model, a path towards conscious exploration of natural / cultural reality from categorical thinking and autonomous learning

Abstract

A path to significantly penetrate the object of study was proposed, from a socio-cultural, humanistic and categorical approach, the heuristic-significant model (HSM). It is based on theories and concepts such as meaningful learning, the development of thinking, the heuristic function, heuristics, the investigative process, the educational process, the conceptual pedagogy and logical methods. A significant-heuristic method, of categorical character, was formulated, with certain characteristics of the object of study such as culturality, complexity, particularity, situationality, interaccionality, transformability, implicability and globality. With the application of the model, it is intended to describe, interpret, explain, argue, generalize and propose ways of conscious inquiry, that contribute to the generation of relevant cultural codes in the academic and research environment, with an epistemological, ethical and productive rigor similar to the tutorial support. It was concluded that the heuristic-significant model is a strategic way to serve the human being as a builder of culture, innovation and change; it is useful to promote autonomous learning, as required in academic practice and research; and favors the critical, rational and conscious thinking of the cultural doing and recognizing its implications in an environment that tends to be more sustainable every day.