Current Internationalization Policies And Its Impacts On The Practices Of A Global South Scientific Community

• In Event: Contested Academic Norms - Unraveling Evaluation Discourses and Practices in an Age of “Excellence”: Globalisation and the Making of Academic Excellence

Abstract

Postgraduate studies and research work are becoming increasingly internationalized activities and so are their norms and evaluation procedures. But what do we mean by internationalized and how does this increasing standardization affect institutions in the Global South? In many countries, these imported values are locally translated into policies, regulations and indicators that influence the evaluation of their postgraduate programs, of the journals in which it is better to publish and the activities that researchers must dedicate themselves. They also determine the flow of funding.
The objective of this paper is to understand how these international standards are used in Brazil by the financing agency Capes / Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Postgraduate Education. For this, the present work will analyze reference documents and databases, comparing its evolution over time and evaluating the different scientific fields.
The main issues addressed are related to who defines what is academic excellence? How does this definition is translated into Brazilian policies and regulations? How these policies and regulations work and how they provoke inequalities between institutions and different lines of research.? Can the use of imported / international values hamper indigenous development?
This proposal is also facing the challenge of dealing and analyzing the Matthew effect (Merton, 1968) in Mertonian institutions. Our point of view and our situated knowledge (Haraway, 1988) are thought by masters and doctoral students of the Postgraduate Program on History of Sciences and Techniques and Epistemology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Authors

• Maria Cristina de Oliveira Cardoso, UFRJ - HCTE

• Claudia Santos Turco, HCTE-UFRJ / FIOCRUZ

• Edmar Machado Braga Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

• Marcos Fialho Carvalho, UFRJ - HCTE

• Heloisa Helena Costa, Universidade Federal Fluminense

• Denise Cristina Alvares Oliveira, Federal University oh Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ

• JULIANA COUTINHO OLIVEIRA, HCTE-UFRJ

• Eduardo Nazareth Paiva, EDUARDO NAZARETH PAIVA