The Challenge of Developing Scientific: The Experience of the Regional Center for Teacher Training an Educational Research, CRESUR, México

Abstract

Generating and disseminating knowledge through periodical publications that achieve the recognition of academic communities is one of the main objectives of Higher Education Institutions. This paper narrates the experience of a small teacher training and educational research center that managed to place three journals in a short time in various indexes and catalogs of scientific publications, despite facing adverse budgetary and political-administrative contexts. It presents a story of effort, resilience and limitations, which is not alien to many academic institutions and scientific communities in Latin America, so it is pertinent to know it, identify its critical conditions of success, as well as some limitations that ultimately proved insurmountable; such as budgetary constraints and their effect on the Centre's financial precariousness which precipitated its closure in just the ninth year of operation, despite having achieved an outstanding projection in its field, among other reasons, thanks to the magazines and the communities that were articulated around them. The methodology is based on a case study, is participatory-ethnographic in nature, and is based on research techniques and documentary analysis.