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Doing research implies an intention to deepen our knowledge of the world we are immersed in and a better understanding of our reality, which also worries us, and is able to set the basis for a more adequate intervention as to the circumstances and aspirations which guide us. But the way to knowledge is not free from obstacles, many of which appear to our conscience, at first sight, as an aid. This research paper intends, from a non-canonical point of view, to show some of the difficulties we have to confront when we start doing research work. To consider the task of doing research is an unavoidable commitment for all those researchers who have the responsibility of training professionals in education that contribute to foster a genuine inclusion of their students, based on a critical acquisition of socially validated knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This papers inform on investigations advances in the comprehension of school dynamics, it's dramatics nucleus and the organization that is putting to work due to social situations in critical conditions, through on analysis comparing cases between different schools that belong at the same geographic area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the last years the University has evolved from an institution which focused on the study of different natural and social phenomena to becoming the focus of research. This paper shows part of the results of a research on the effects of social changes in the work and professional life of university teachers. The professional life history has been the strategy chosen to approach the changes in the lives of teachers and researchers. As a result of studying and comparing 24 life histories, there appears a group of different topics which have different meanings for the participants in this research. Their analyses show there is an increase in stress and pressure on teachers who are forced to carry out three completely different activities: teaching, researching and having managerial positions. This text presents the situations teachers have to face in a working context which is becoming more and more demanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]