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MENDOZA, Cecilia. PEDAGOGY AS SCIENCE: NOTES FOR A DEBATE. Investigación y Postgrado [online]. 2004, vol.19, n.2, pp.229-240. ISSN 1316-0087.

The purpose of this research is the debate of Pedagogy in the scientific level, as the intellectual commitment of those who are in the transcendent field of education. We do not formulate definitive propositions but the connotations that this subject has and the necessity for a permanent discussion. In a general way we express some aspects that the Pedagogy has been adapting, searching for autonomy of its field as a philosophical reflection about the goals of education, the search for recognition under other specialties like the excluding positivism philosophy finishing with an analysis of the different possibilities of Pedagogy as a science through the epistemological openings of the paradigms that base the new rationality.

Palavras-chave : pedagogy; philosophical reflection; new rationality.