ABSTRACT
Undergraduate research projects, traditionally implemented in higher education, have also been present at high school level. Based on this reality, we aim at analyzing, comparatively, undergraduate research projects in these two contexts regarding their principles and guidelines recommended in official documents and training aspects in educational practices. In this sense, for both levels of education, we have selected official documents dealing with this science education policy, as well as final reports on undergraduate research projects in the area of Linguistics and Literature. The data were analyzed based on reflections about education through research and studies concerning literacy and academic literacy, using a qualitative-interpretative approach. The analyses indicate that the official documents, in both contexts, are based on similar conceptions, mainly the research as pedagogical principle, but there are investment differences which are significantly bigger in higher education. The reports, in turn, suggest the conduction of similar activities/routines in the process of construction and socialization of scientific knowledge, materialized in texts that demonstrate knowledge and difficulties that are independent of the education level. Therefore, in the situation we investigated, there are more similarities than differences between undergraduate research programs in both high school and higher education, especially when it comes to training aspects, although the projects develop in different settings.
literacy; academic literacy; undergraduate research project; high school; higher education