As atividades como recurso para a pesquisa

Activities play a guiding central role in occupational therapy, articulating to its utilization, the understanding \udand assessment of its capabilities in numerous and different interventions arising from this field. In this study, we \udaim to present the use of activities as a research methodology resource. Considering the pathways studied in a \udmaster’s research followed by a PhD work, some applications of this resource are reported as a powerful strategy \udof investigation for the occupational therapy researcher. It is about structuring, systematizing, and analyzing the \udactivities proposed in professional practice by the theoretical and methodological rigor used in the research works. \udIt emphasizes how the use of these activities can be considered important data, records, instruments and sources \udfor different research methods, especially for qualitative analyses. Workshop activities were offered in the above \udmentioned studies; they were used as communication instruments and expressions of personal and collective \udexperiences, supplying data to understand the actions of subjects and collectives. Furthermore, this strategy was \udapplied as spaces of experimentation, learning and expression, where each participant was conceived as an active \udbeing of the process, in a way that the proposal could result in democratic experiences that reflected greater \udinterest and participation, and a more complex presentation of the research data. It is worth mentioning that other \udmethodological procedures, which substantiated the analyses and interpretation of the data collected, were also used. It was possible to conclude that activities, mainly as a qualitative research resource, constituted materialities \udin different languages and expressions that enriched the analyses arising from micro-realities, producing a repertoire \udof information that supported the interpretations required for the investigative processes.\ud\u