Looking for freedom in contemporary universities: What is educational research for?

European Educational Research Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-10

  Nóvoa, António ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

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EID: 84956681359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14749041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474904114563459     Document Type: Note

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1. The text is a transcript of the keynote address delivered in Porto, at the European Conference on Educational Research (4 September 2014). For this reason it preserves traces of the oral presentation style. The transcript has been subject to very minor editing only in preparation for publication.
2. See Roger Martin du Gard’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, 10 December 1937.
3. In this regard, Amaya Moro-Martin, an astrophysicist, wrote in Nature (Vol 514, No 7521, 8 October 2014): ‘Already reeling from budget cuts of 50% for universities and research centers, Portugal may now have to close half of its research units because of a flawed evaluation process supported by the European Science Foundation’. She received an immediate warning from the European Science Foundation, signed by the Head of Science Support Office, requesting for retraction: ‘If your allegation is not publically retracted in Nature, the European Science Foundation will be compelled to take appropriate legal action’.
4. Eliot Freidson (1986) Les professions artistiques comme défi à l’analyse sociologique. Revue Française de Sociologie 27(3): 436.
5. See, for instance, Nicholas Barr (2012) The Higher Education White Paper: The good, the bad, the unspeakable – and the next White Paper. Social Policy and Administration 46(5): 438–508. See also the web page of Nicholas Barr: http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/nb.
6. See Susan L. Robertson (2012) World-class higher education (for whom?). Prospects, 42: 237–245.
7. George Monbiot (2011) Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist’. The Guardian, 29 August.
8. See Dominique Nora (2014) Recherche publique, profits privés. Le Nouvel Observateur No 2583, 8 May: 52–53.
9. See Harvard University, Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing, 17 April 2012 (http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448).
10. See the statement of purpose of The cost of knowledge, in http://gowers.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/elsevierstatementfinal.pdf.
11. The English version of the Manifesto can be found on the website: http://www.univendebat.eu/manifeste/ manifesto-for-universities-to-stand-up-for-their-missions/.
12. The Slow Science Manifesto can be found on the website: http://slow-science.org/.
13. An English version of the essay by Jacques Derrida (2002) ‘L’université sans condition’, is included in the book Without Alibi, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. See also John Holmwood (ed) (2011) A Manifesto for the Public University. London, UK Bloomsbury.
14. See La Charte de la Désexcellence, January 2014 version, on the website: http://lac.ulb.ac.be/LAC/ charte_files/Charte_Desexcellence:1-1.pdf.
15. See also a recent petition for European researchers, They have chosen ignorance!, that can be found on the website: http://openletter.euroscience.org/open-letter/.
16. Michel Serres (1997) The Troubadour of Knowledge. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, p. 165.
17. David Labaree (2012) A sermon on educational research. International Journal for the Historiography of Education 2(1): 74.
18. Idem, p. 82.
19. See Daniel Hameline (1986) L’éducation, Ses Images et Son Propos, Paris, France: ESF, p. 202.
20. Vergílio Ferreira (1992) Pensar, Lisboa, Portugal: Bertrand, p. 9.