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.

The analysis of educational strategies that contribute to social cohesion and educational strategies that lead to social exclusion requires the inclusion of the maximum diversity of voices (i.e. all related stakeholders and end-users) and to draw from a wide range of sources. While the voices of vulnerable groups have been traditionally excluded from research, the critical communicative methodology relies on the direct and active participation of the people whose reality is being studied throughout the whole research process.

As for example, with the communicative methodology, vulnerable groups have seen the possibility to participate in a research that takes their voices into account in order to contribute to overcome their social exclusion. INCLUD-ED count on the participation of representatives from collectives of immigrants, people with disabilities, women, youth (at risk) and Romà, in the research through the Advisory Committee.

Several mechanisms have been foreseen to preserve the project's ethical integrity and protect the study participants' from any kind of misuse of the collected data about them.

 

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