Doctoral production and transmethods

Abstract

The purpose of this article was to investigate the level of progress on the use of transmethods in the doctoral production generated during the years (2015-2020). A documentary type methodology was used, which included the selection and systematization of the bibliography related to the points of interest, using the Zotero tool and the qualitative analysis software ATLAS ti.8. Among the findings, the following were specified: first, the academic who is motivated to pursue a doctorate should know its meaning and the implications of the training process; second, the development of a doctoral work in the framework of an unstable society should be approached from a methodology that fits its complexity as a means to reveal reality through an interdisciplinary and dialogic process; and, thirdly, the researches made from transcomplexity are of a high academic level, since they demonstrated the ability to design a novel methodological structure and the use of multi-methods to achieve a theoretical construction. It is concluded that when wishing to pursue a doctoral degree, applicants should be informed about the meaning and implications of the training process; in addition to the competencies to be strengthened to achieve the realization of doctoral production.

Keywords: doctorate; research; methodology; transcomplexity; transmethods.