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Teaching and Research: Perspectives from Portugal

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Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education

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This chapter aims at analysing the Portuguese academics’ perceptions regarding the relationship between research and teaching within the academic work division. This relationship has been always considered as the main structural component of the social division of academic work and academic knowledge epistemologies. In the last decade, this relationship has been challenged by the introduction of market and ‘hard’ managerial rationality in the Portuguese higher education landscape. Based on data analysis from the international ‘Changing Academic Profession’ (CAP) survey, this chapter tries to address theoretically and empirically the way Portuguese academics are facing this new institutional environment.

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    Meaning the general assembly (universities) or council (polytechnics), who elected the rector and the president of the polytechnic, and, in the university case, the senate that was the principal governance body and the main locus of the collegial power.

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    At the present time, there are 118 higher education institutions in Portugal: 47 universities (15 public, 31 private and cooperative universities, 1 non-integrated university institution; the Catholic university), 65 polytechnics (15 public, 46 private and 4 non-integrated schools of polytechnic institutions) and 6 military and police higher education institutions (4 military and police university institutions and 2 military and police polytechnic institutions).

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  1. CIPES and University of Aveiro, Rua 1º de Dezembro, 399, 4450-227, Matosinhos, Portugal

    Rui Santiago & Teresa Carvalho

  2. CIPES, Rua 1º de Dezembro, 399, 4450-227, Matosinhos, Portugal

    Sofia Branco Sousa & Diana Dias

  3. CIPES and Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education, Rua 1º de Dezembro, 399, 4450-227, Matosinhos, Portugal

    Maria de Lurdes Machado-Taylor

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Santiago, R., Sousa, S.B., Carvalho, T., de Lurdes Machado-Taylor, M., Dias, D. (2014). Teaching and Research: Perspectives from Portugal. In: Shin, J., Arimoto, A., Cummings, W., Teichler, U. (eds) Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6830-7_9

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