Mapping concepts and knowledge transposition: the appearance of a new branch of social sciences

Abstract

We will present here the Knowledge Theory (KT) along with one of its possible research methodologies. That is, together with concept mapping as an algorithmic language (CMA). That is, at the moment that a given author produces a given text or hypertext, be an educational text, an report, a article or scientific text, it "materializes" in a written form as a set of ideas, hypotheses, explanatory models, theory and/or experimental facts. All this implied in its most general form. In this moment we have the occurrence of an "educational fact." It is proposed here that a theory of Knowledge Transposition or Didactic Transposition, provided with a research methodology and based on pedagogical facts constitutes a branch of the social sciences. That this new theory, the "Theory of Knowledge", can be easily generalized to other forms of knowledge.