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3 Methodological Procedures
This research was based on a systematic literature review to collect the articles for
analysis. After documents collection, a content analysis was performed according to
the guidelines of Elo and Kyngäs (2008). For article’s search, the combination of the
string in the abstracts: “higher education” AND “sustainability” AND “Brazil”. The
databases used were: “Science Direct”, “Emerald Insights” and “Scopus”. A total
of 51 articles were found. After excluding duplications and analyzing if they fit into
this research scope, 30 articles were selected. For these articles, the content analysis
was conducted.
According to Elo and Kyngäs (2008), the content analysis should have three
phases: preparation phase, organizing phase and reporting the processes and results
phase. In the preparation phase, the unit of analysis need to be selected. For this
study, the unit of analysis was defined by the theme “Sustainability insertion in
higher education in Brazilian context”. Also in this phase, Elo and Kyngäs (2008)
emphasize the need to obtain a representative sample. To ensure it, this search for
articles was performed in important databases. Finally, the researchers must know
well the information in the documents to be analyzed. For this, the authors read the
articles to be analyzed.
In the second phase (organizing phase), the research approach needs to be classified (deductive or inductive). Due to the fragmentary character of studies related
to “sustainability insertion into higher education in Brazilian context”, this research
can be classified as inductive. Thus, it takes specific cases to establish generalizations
about the subject. In the inductive content analysis, open coding, categories creation
and abstraction. In the open coding, it was done a careful analysis was performed
in the articles collected and the following information were gathered: title, objective
and method. It is important to highlight that there were articles in which formal
definitions of the used research strategies were not presented; however, analyzing
the articles’ details, the strategies were identified by the authors of this study. The
information collected in the articles were grouped and categorized. From these categories, discussions, debates on research gaps and future research guidelines were
reported.
4 Results
As mentioned in the methodological procedures section, 30 articles were selected
from literature review. The information collected in these articles for the inductive
content analysis are presented in Table 1.
Regarding the method of analysis used in the articles presented in Table 1, it is
possible to verify that case study is the most used method (37%). The second most
used method was survey (23%). These research strategies are interesting to provide
different kind of overviews, the first one presents a qualitative approach while in
I. S. Rampasso et al.
3 Methodological Procedures
This research was based on a systematic literature review to collect the articles for
analysis. After documents collection, a content analysis was performed according to
the guidelines of Elo and Kyngäs (2008). For article’s search, the combination of the
string in the abstracts: “higher education” AND “sustainability” AND “Brazil”. The
databases used were: “Science Direct”, “Emerald Insights” and “Scopus”. A total
of 51 articles were found. After excluding duplications and analyzing if they fit into
this research scope, 30 articles were selected. For these articles, the content analysis
was conducted.
According to Elo and Kyngäs (2008), the content analysis should have three
phases: preparation phase, organizing phase and reporting the processes and results
phase. In the preparation phase, the unit of analysis need to be selected. For this
study, the unit of analysis was defined by the theme “Sustainability insertion in
higher education in Brazilian context”. Also in this phase, Elo and Kyngäs (2008)
emphasize the need to obtain a representative sample. To ensure it, this search for
articles was performed in important databases. Finally, the researchers must know
well the information in the documents to be analyzed. For this, the authors read the
articles to be analyzed.
In the second phase (organizing phase), the research approach needs to be classified (deductive or inductive). Due to the fragmentary character of studies related
to “sustainability insertion into higher education in Brazilian context”, this research
can be classified as inductive. Thus, it takes specific cases to establish generalizations
about the subject. In the inductive content analysis, open coding, categories creation
and abstraction. In the open coding, it was done a careful analysis was performed
in the articles collected and the following information were gathered: title, objective
and method. It is important to highlight that there were articles in which formal
definitions of the used research strategies were not presented; however, analyzing
the articles’ details, the strategies were identified by the authors of this study. The
information collected in the articles were grouped and categorized. From these categories, discussions, debates on research gaps and future research guidelines were
reported.
4 Results
As mentioned in the methodological procedures section, 30 articles were selected
from literature review. The information collected in these articles for the inductive
content analysis are presented in Table 1.
Regarding the method of analysis used in the articles presented in Table 1, it is
possible to verify that case study is the most used method (37%). The second most
used method was survey (23%). These research strategies are interesting to provide
different kind of overviews, the first one presents a qualitative approach while in