Estruturas organizacionais para a educação doutoral em Portugal:  Prevalência e características

Sónia Cardoso; Teresa Carvalho

doi:10.21814/rpe.35803

Auteurs

Sónia Cardoso Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal, CeiED – Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Educação e Desenvolvimento (CeiED), Lisboa, Portugal e Centro de Investigação de Políticas do Ensino Superior (CIPES), Matosinhos, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6504-8468
Teresa Carvalho Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Políticas e do Território, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal e Centro de Investigação de Políticas do Ensino Superior (CIPES), Matosinhos, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3368-3990

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.35803

Mots-clés :

Educação Doutoral, Estruturas organizacionais, Adaptação das universidades, Teoria institucional, Portugal

Résumé

Este estudo exploratório analisa as estruturas organizacionais das universidades portuguesas para a educação doutoral, procurando identificar a sua prevalência e características. Apesar de recentes, estas estruturas parecem emergir como arranjos institucionais autónomos, com modelos de implementação, missão, objetivos e domínios de atividade específicos. Parecem, também, desempenhar um papel crucial na legitimação e no apoio à educação doutoral, contribuindo tanto para a sua integração na investigação realizada pelas universidades como para a sua estruturação. Recorrendo à teoria institucional como lente teórica para discutir os resultados, o estudo sugere que as universidades portuguesas, ao implementarem estas estruturas organizacionais, e talvez devido à ausência de regulamentação nacional, seguem influências e tendências europeias. Forças normativas e miméticas, impulsionadas pela necessidade de legitimidade e sobrevivência no campo do ensino superior, parecem influenciar esta adaptação. Embora estas estruturas contribuam para melhorar a educação doutoral, a sua prevalência limitada sugere a existência de desafios a esta implementação. O estudo oferece perspetivas para os decisores políticos e líderes institucionais, bem como sugestões para investigação futura sobre estas estruturas.

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