Modos de regulação institucional da investigação educacional: O caso do Instituto de Inovação Educacional

Abstract

This paper presents an illustrative empirical study on the evolution of public policies regulation modes concerning Science, as scientific activity is currently marked by a gradual intensification of external control. Focusing on the action of a public institute that operated in Portugal between 1989 and 2001, the study examines how the State sought to guide and influence educational research, in particular by creating a framework guided towards the production of useful knowledge for policy-making. In addition to these modes of institutional regulation, the study has also identified other modes of regulation, arising from the way researchers have appropriated these guidelines and policy makers have re-interpreted them, accounting for the complexity of public policies for Science.