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A política científica brasileira de internacionalização e seus impactos para a Pós-Graduação em Psicologia
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2020-11-27Registro en:
COSTA, Joyce Pereira da. A política científica brasileira de internacionalização e seus impactos para a Pós-Graduação em Psicologia. 2020. 260f. Tese (Doutorado em Psicologia) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2020.
Autor
Costa, Joyce Pereira da
Resumen
In recent years, accompanying national scientific policies, internationalization has received
significant attention in the field of Psychology in Brazil, especially in graduate studies, the
primary area of scientific activity in the country. This process involves different directions, with
issues that affect the course of scientific development and its social function in the capitalist
order. As such, we aimed to discuss the internationalization process outlined by Brazilian
graduate studies in psychology. We analyzed the content of 36 documents published by the
national scientific policy and the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in
Psychology. We found that internationalization promoted by Brazilian scientific policy, which
seeks to increase the country’s international competitiveness, is predominantly market based;
it focuses primarily on the Natural Sciences and cooperation with Northern hemisphere
countries. In these conditions, a large part of human and social sciences have less space to
conduct their internationalization process – especially those critically placed in relation to the
current order and for which internationalization includes other paths rarely considered by
policies, such as establishing relations with Southern hemisphere countries. This scenario
reverberates in Psychology, whose levels of internationalization are greater for graduate
programs in subareas closer to the Natural Sciences and lower for programs in and Social
Sciences, and is reflected in the different internationalization trends in the area. We concluded
that in order for Psychology to contribute with relevant answers to the needs that affect the
Brazilian population, it should promote internationalization in contrast to the market trends that
guide this process. It should, therefore, demand a change in the role of science, in favor of the
full development of humanity, possible only through the structural transformation of society, a
struggle that cannot be limited to the walls of academia.