ESC 71 | Transatlantic mobility in the new geopolitics of knowledge: (Inter)Dependencies in higher education Brazil/Portugal

Issue 71 of the journal Educação Sociedade & Culturas is now online
Special issue | Transatlantic mobility in the new geopolitics of knowledge: (Inter)Dependencies in higher education Brazil/Portugal

Guest editors:

Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, University of Münster, Germany

Tiago Neves, University of Porto, Portugal

Academic mobility between Brazil and Portugal has always been a topic of interest for higher education researchers on both sides of the Atlantic. Until the founding of the first higher education institutions (HEIs) in Brazil, Portugal was the main destination for higher academic education (Cunha, 2007). At the end of the 20th century, the number of students and faculty members participating in international exchanges increased exponentially, and both countries invested in promoting and financing international mobility with a view to providing new experiences and knowledge (bilateral and multilateral agreements, international programmes and institutional protocols). More recently, with a greater focus on the internationalisation of higher education, international exchanges of students, teachers and researchers have received even more attention. While academic exchange has been promoted as a form of study with a plurality of thoughts, scientific trends and worldviews, contributing to the training of citizens with a global perspective, international mobility has also come to be seen as a source of income for HEIs and as a national investment (economic and soft power diplomacy; Li, 2018).

The whole issue is available here: https://www.up.pt/journals/index.php/esc-ciie/issue/view/128