INCLUD-ED, through the critical communicative research perspective aims at having a significant social and political impact on the European educational and social systems, as was achieved in previous FP projects (e.g. Workaló, FP5). The critical communicative perspective arises from different theoretical contributions. The bases of the Critical Communicative Methodology are:

 

Knowledge Constructed Through Intersubjective Dialogue

Meanings are constructed in interactive communication between people, reaching agreements. The researchers bring their expertise and the recent developments in the scientific community into the dialogue and this is contrasted with what social actors think and experience in their everyday lives.

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Including Traditionally Silenced Voices

There is a direct and active participation of the people whose reality is studied throughout the entire research process.

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Exclusionary and Transformative Components

Scientific analysis oriented towards identifying strategies that lead to social inclusion (transformative) and those which lead to social exclusion (exclusionary).

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Different research techniques:

	DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES	DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
QUANTITATIVE	Questionnaire	Statistical analysis
	Secondary analysis of existing datasets
QUALITATIVE	Literature review
	Policy Analysis
	Documents	Content analysis
	Standardized open-ended interviews	Communicative data analysis (exclusionary and transformative dimensions)
COMMUNICATIVE	Communicative daily life stories
	Communicative focus groups
	Communicative observations