The reflective use of dossiers in the history of education: revealing strategies of strengthening in the scientific field

Abstract

field. In this direction, the work sought to demonstrate the movements that the journals in Education in the
Midwest region carried out, under the focus of the investigative line of the History of Education, anchored in
the scientometric study. In this light, the research mapped 13 journals linked to the Postgraduate Education
Programs available in the open system, where there were 09 journals whose dossiers fit the perspective
proposed here. Of these, 20 themes were found for analysis, retrieving 155 articles with 222 different authors,
among which only 02 had 03 frequent contributions. As for the keywords, 459 mentions were collected, whose
most recurrent term was History of Education, in a total of 21 incidences. However, the study revealed that
the History of the Education research field still requires maturation due to the high number of researchers
who published only once in the evaluated journals. The research also signaled a vast transience of terms that
can confirm the loss of the totality of the object but can also point out new rearrangements which the field
of research itself proposes.