Notas sobre la metodología cualitativa y su uso en la investigación educacional

This article briefly analyzes the current change process of the religious experience in Western Christian societies. A situation that is described as a true «metamorphosis» of the sacred, because of the profound and radical change in permanent process, affecting all components of the configuration of religious practices, institutions, belief systems, and particularly, acting as support for all of them, the person�s attitude and experience, expressed in his daily religious practice. This reality is seen as a real possibility of growth and education of the Christian option, made possible by understanding the church of God as a People which is constituted as a model educational community, providing an understanding of man and the world more open and relational. This helps to overcome the constant temptation of segregation and dualism in the religious education.En este artículo se reflexiona respecto del uso de las metodologías cualitativas en la investigación educacional en nuestro país. Para ello, aborda simultáneamente dos temáticas poco usuales para la investigación educacional: la muerte de un delincuente y la planificación cultural, ello desde el primado formal de que en la ampliación del concepto del �yo� en el uso y la reflexión en torno a las metodologías cualitativas, existe una posibilidad de ampliar el campo de acción de la investigación educacional