The schoolar failing: between political issues and research efforts

Abstract

The scientific magazines are one of the specialized knowledge pour out mechanisms. On them, we can evidence not only specific research interests, but also ways of proceeding facing knowledge; in other words, people`s works who say to be worried about knowledge, in a particular issue. In this sense, this paper is interested in understanding those ways in which scholar failing discussion is presented, the horizons towards these researches are looking for and the phenomena it is associated to. After some of the LATINDEX index content analysis, the research has allowed to establish how much of the investigation given there have common sense elements, from both science or ideology, as a frame or research reference, and the way in which these frames give a political or either knowledge substance about them. The analysis of this type of documentary sources, moreover, has given us the possibility to understand how a multiple faces issue is researched in detail, an issue such as academic failing; what are the regarding concepts taken into account for its understanding, and how the research objects were built around the topic. Furthermore, this analysis has let us think about how research is understood from the academic community perspective.