Diagnosis at school as subjective process: complexity, learning and observation domains

Abstract

This article presents a critical review about behavioral diagnosis processes in school settings, according to their complexity and size of subjectivity. Thus, our focus of interdisciplinary interpretation links the Science of Education in general with Psychology in particular, correlating this with increasingly extensive proliferation of clinical diagnosis demands within educational establishments. From this base, the epistemological basis of these diagnostic processes is discussed, confronting them with critical elements of the epistemology of complexity, communication theory and the implicit notion of the subject/observer in the discursive practice of clinical diagnosis.