Science funding under an authoritarian regime: Portugal’s National Education Board and the European ‘academic landscape’ in the interwar period

This article enables an understanding of scientific practice and funding in a peripheral country ruled by a dictatorship in the interwar period, and thus provides the basis for comparison with studies of other non-democratic regimes. We examine the work of Portugal’s Junta de Educação Nacional (National Education Board), which administered and provided funding for science from 1929 to 1936. Our findings show that this public body encouraged the participation of the Portuguese academic community in international science networks. This scenario contrasts with the dominant historiographical thesis that between the wars the Portuguese academic community did not play a role in international networks, and that it lacked state support. Also in contrast with the dominant historiography, whose ideological bias meant that a simplified picture was portrayed, whereas the reality is shown to be complex, this study demonstrates that the Portuguese dictatorial state sought to foster scientific progress through the Junta, but that resentment among academics and the resistance of universities to innovation meant that this objective was only partially achieved. Finally, the memory of a number of scientists has been rescued from oblivion, as we show how their political stance during the dictatorship led to their being ignored by historiographers when democracy prevailed.IHC - Pólo da UE. FCT

Alumnus: May 1950

https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/alumnus/1007/thumbnail.jp

Quarterly Bulletin, Catalog & Annual Announcement | June 1934

Vol. 28, No. 107 (June 1934). In its early years as the State Normal School, JSU produced a variety of publications (announcements, bulletins, and catalogs) that contain course information combined with the types of information that would later be found in yearbooks. Examples include historical information about the school, lists of enrolled students and club officers, photographs of athletic teams and literary clubs, notes on alumni, faculty and campus facilities, and more.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_bul_bulletin/1094/thumbnail.jp

History of Universities

This book’s chapters contain a mix of analysis and discussion looking in depth at the history of higher education. This text presents a global history of research education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chapters cover topics such as how disciplines are formed and research training, the rise of academic laboratory science, research mathematicians circa 1900 and research training in the humanities in British universities from 1870 to 1939. Other subjects include training language scholars between 1920 and 1940, training researchers in Ibero-Amerca, inventing laboratory science in Meiji Japan, and Chinese physics researchers in the period 1927-1941. The book includes an introduction and conclusion by Kevin Chang and Alan Rocke

Humboldt Lumberjack, May 23, 1945

The student newspaper of Humboldt State Universityhttps://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/studentnewspaper/1308/thumbnail.jp

1939-1940. V78.01. February Bulletin.

https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/catalogs/1106/thumbnail.jp

History of Universities

This book’s chapters contain a mix of analysis and discussion looking in depth at the history of higher education. This text presents a global history of research education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chapters cover topics such as how disciplines are formed and research training, the rise of academic laboratory science, research mathematicians circa 1900 and research training in the humanities in British universities from 1870 to 1939. Other subjects include training language scholars between 1920 and 1940, training researchers in Ibero-Amerca, inventing laboratory science in Meiji Japan, and Chinese physics researchers in the period 1927-1941. The book includes an introduction and conclusion by Kevin Chang and Alan Rocke