Societal Changes and Access to Educational Research in Postsecondary Education in Lithuania

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyze 14 Lithuanian professors’ and doctoral students’ discourses about access to research knowledge and juxtapose their discourses with those of policy documents. Discursive and contrastive analyses revealed that while people emphasized their willingness to learn and produce quality research, they were constrained by socio-historical, economic, and academic contexts. Official discourses discounted the contextual and human factors and emphasized research quantity and qualify as measured by the international “impact factors”. While both people and official discourses inscribed the importance of research to contribute to the society’s development, only the interview participants considered the multiple layers of the sociocultural contexts that impacted their research work and learning.

Authors

• Liudmila Rupsiene, Klaipeda University

• Audra Skukauskaite