This present paper systematizes produced reflections in the processes course of research that I have developed in the history of education, with a regional emphasis. The goal is to share assumptions and methodological alternatives that has guided the research conduct, especially built from theoretical bond with authors of the New History, with an emphasis in Cultural History. I restrict my view to written documents and, therefore, to the documentary analysis, to share the methodological dimensions that I have considered in the production of my studies de history of education.
methodology; documentary analysis; research in the history of education; regional