New teaching methods: Merging “John Dewey” and “William Heard Kilpatrick” teaching techniques

This article shows our research oriented towards improving doctoral theses by publications. This process is justified by John Dewey´s knowledge theory and various phases of Kilpatrick´s work. After a theoretical foundation, the research work set the steps in a thesis by publications, which is both validated by members of the scientific community and created from the knowledge of the experience of the candidate in the field of study. Validation of the PhD thesis in this case is found by members of the scientific community in a research validation along publications.