KHUN AND LAKATOS' EPISTEMIC VISION, TO GAIN A TRANSCENDETAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE EDUCATIONAL GUIDANCE TOWARDS STUDENT ACADEMIC AND EXISTENTIAL SUCCESS

Abstract

Social research in contemporary times is presented as the best means to obtain knowledge of the realities and facts that arise in human daily life, since it has been seen in a substantial way that the events have to be the main conditions that unify the objects of study in these times, but especially with regard to education as a sociocultural event, and as a process that impacts on all spheres of the life of the person, always in favor of improving the holistic conditions that constitute it and, aspiring to a development that goes from the simply academic, to the existential that underlies the interiority of each human being. The purpose of this study was to conceptualize and argue sufficiently the perspective of social research and, from there, to have the basis to understand objects of study such as educational guidance for the achievement of academic and existential success of students. From this perspective, the emerging knowledge expresses that the only way to manage an educational intervention that favors a holistic development of students, not only academically but also existentially, is the possibility of truths that can be understood from epistemological research with a social foundation, and from this position, educational guidance is no longer seen as a clinical and specialized means in psychology, and is conceived as an opportunity within the human development in the common plane, to the point of building a life model, by which the significant and transcendental development of the student is defined.