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Academic scrutiny is characterized by what Amartya Sen (2011) called, in his conference in Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, on 14 March 2011, “criticality”, that is, and I quote: “the importance of critically confronting our own values, in addition to scrutinizing the values that others propagate.
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Mendes, J.M. (2014). Equality, Democratic Citizenship and Solidarity. In: Teodoro, A., Guilherme, M. (eds) European and Latin American Higher Education Between Mirrors. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-545-8_3
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