Our study analyzes the pedagogical research carried out as an activity of superior, innovative social creation, which has an extended sphere of reference on the scale of the entire education system. The general function fulfilled is that of epistemological consolidation and methodological improvement of the theory and practice of education. The basic structure is marked by the functional correlation between: theory (developed according to the historically affirmed paradigm that imposes a certain way of approaching the fundamental concepts, specific to the field) – methodology (theory applied at the level of an important problem, pedagogically and socially significant, delimited especially to be solved) – practical, perfectible following the proposed solutions to solve the delimited problem.