Abstract
This paper provides an overview from the perspective of an invited international guest to the 15th Symposium of ANPEPP, held in Bento Gonçalves, Brazil, in May, 2014. ANPEPP, the acronym for "Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Psicologia," or the "Brazilian National Association for Research and Postgraduate Studies in Psychology" in English, is comprised of psychology faculty at postgraduate programs throughout Brazil. The theme of internationalization is especially relevant for Brazil, where there has been rapid development in science and technology output, affording it a new, emerging international role. The paper discusses the multiple connotations of internationalization, the goals for internationalization from different perspectives, and the impact of internationalization on psychological research and publishing in Brazil. It also addresses the opportunities and challenges of internationalization in Brazil and elsewhere. In addition, the author shares her experiences in the ANPEPP forum-plenary sessions and business meetings. Of particular note as a first-time attendee is the evaluation process for postgraduate education, conducted by CAPES, the Brazilian Federal Agency for Improvement of Higher Education. In closing, the author asks what psychology, as a discipline, can learn from ANPEPP's and Brazil's approach to developing and evaluating academic disciplines, and expresses appreciation for the opportunity to participate in what she characterizes as a unique convocation.
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This paper provides an overview from the perspective of an invited international guest to the 15th Symposium of ANPEPP, held in Bento Gonçalves, Brazil, in May, 2014
In May, 2014 I attended the 15th ANPEPP Symposium for Scientific Interchange and Research (XV Simpósio Pesquisa e Intercâmbio Científico da ANPEPP). This is a biannual conference of the Brazilian National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Psychology, an Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Merry Bullock, American Psychological Association, 750 First Street NE, Washington DC 20002-4242, US; email: mbullock@apa.org organization that includes all the faculty who teach in psychology post-graduate programs
The agenda reflected what I understood to be the major goals of the Symposium – to promote dialogue, collaboration and self-reflection in the Brazilian psychology research community
Summary
My own direct participation was in two of the four Forums – sessions that were broad discussions on overarching issues. In the case of Brazil, from my observations, internationalization is generally discussed as extending Brazilian work outwards, increasing Brazilian representation in international settings, and encouraging active exchange inwards and outwards with scholars from outside of Brazil Each of these actions requires Brazilian students and scholars to change their orientation – toward using English, toward publishing in “international” as opposed to local journals, and toward framing their work in a larger, more intercultural context, either as a unique example of cultural variation, or as confirmation of a more general norm. This carries an inherent tension, as the Forum discussion acknowledged, between local and universal perspectives. I visited another workgroup on history only briefly – one of the topics they were discussing was the discovery of psychological writings by a Brazilian psychologist, published well before the more well known European and American examples of Wilhelm Wundt and William James
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