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For a person to know the concrete realities, he must investigate. To investigate means 
to seek facts that allow him to get to know a certain reality. 
 
For example, many people talk about poor families in the rural areas, but do not know 
how the economy of these families is &ndash; their production, their income, their expenses, 
their partners, their solidarity. So, if you, as a teacher, pretend to know this reality, you 
have to make an investigation. How? In a simple way, it might go as follows: 
 
1. You have to define a topic, for example, &ldquo;The economy of poor families in the 
community of Marocanhe&rdquo; and put a key question, which is the problem, &ldquo;How 
is the economy of the poor families in the community of Marocanhe?&rdquo; 
 
2. Prepare the most important questions to collect the needed facts about this 
economy, for example: 
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">a) How do they manage to get the money or the products for the expenses 
for basic necessities? Which is their production, their work or the 
services they are rendering? 
b) Which are the essential basic expenses? To food, clothes, housing, 
health, hygiene and education? 
c) In cases of extreme difficulties, whom, beyond the family, do they ask 
for help?</div>
 
3. Choose the target group, that is, the persons you are going to ask, for example 20 
poor families in the community of Marocanhe. 
 
4. Make test interviews with 4 families to find out whether the questions are good 
or need to be improved. 
 
5. Make the interviews. 
 
6. Organize and analyse the collected data and make the final report. 
 
7. Publish the report. 
 
This is the simplest form of an investigation for learning about a certain reality. 
 
With this investigation you will, beyond the facts collected, learn to communicate with 
other people, explaining to them the aims of the investigation and asking them to 
answer your questions. 
 
You can use the interview when you want to get facts from people, but beyond 
interviews, there are many other techniques for collecting facts by investigation. For 
example if you want to study a river, the method will be observation, because you will 
observe in order to get to know the riverbed, the banks, the torrent and other facts 
concerning the river. 
 
Do you believe investigation can be used as a method in primary school? Yes, it can. 
Here are some possible topics: 
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">The history of my area 
The medical plants in my community 
The river that is close to my community 
The most common diseases in my community 
&nbsp;</div>
These topics can be developed into investigations through interviews and observations. 
In this case, you will have to assist the pupils during the whole process. 
This task gives you a good opportunity to study further how to use investigation to 
learn more. 
 
Enjoy it!

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