"Questionable" Behaviors and Practices in Academic Productivity in Postgraduate Studies in Mexico
"Questionable" Behaviors and Practices in Academic Productivity in Postgraduate Studies in Mexico作者机构:Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos Mexico (Autonomous University of Morelos Mexico) bDireccion General de Educacion Tecnologica Industrial-DGETl (Directorate-General of Industrial Technology Education) Mexico
出 版 物:《Sociology Study》
年 卷 期:2015年第5卷第1期
页 面:8-22页
学科分类:0303[法学-社会学] 03[法学] 0401[教育学-教育学] 04[教育学] 040102[教育学-课程与教学论]
主 题:Ethics "questionable" practices and behaviors academic production postgraduate studies
摘 要:This paper reports the results acquired in a research work about "questionable" practices and behaviors in the academic production of researches and postgraduate social sciences and humanities studies of the programs that are appointed by the National Program of Quality Postgraduate Studies (PNPC, by its acronym in Spanish) in Mexico. Through a qualitative methodology, the authors interpreted some of the arguments that explain and/or justify certain practices in relation to doubled production, authorship, and coauthorship of academic products. In this paper, the authors present and analyze the results that they obtained after reviewing documents produced by professors and students of six postgraduate programs that are taught in two Mexican public universities. At the same time, the authors examine some of the practices that take place within said programs, given the institutional demands of improving finished studies efficiency. One of the hypotheses of this work is the demands that are imposed by external evaluations of academic processes on professors and their programs in order to reach desirable rates with the purpose of maintaining or increasing the levels of productivity, gives way to certain practices that must be analyzed. This work's theoretic framework is constituted by the contributions of career sociology and professional ethics.