10 anos de Educação e Pesquisa

Abstract

This is a special issue of Education and Research, with the aim of celebrating the 10 th anniversary of the journal under its current format. Like other rites of passage, anniversaries are cultural milestones that tend to stimulate symbolically assessments and reckonings, and also to invite the making of new projects. We shall not decline the invitation. Although the journal has been in circulation since 1975 (under the title of Revista da Faculdade de Educação), it was only in these last yearsmore specifically since 1999, when having Professor Belmira Amélia de Barros Oliveira Bueno as its editorthat this publication of the Faculty of Education of the University of São Paulo (FEUSP) started a new phase, establishing itself in the following years as one of the main publications in the field of the scientific research in Education in Brazil. It is, therefore, this new stage that we celebrate with the present issue. The trajectory, as well as the more recent achievements, were made possible by the endeavor and commitment of all those involved along the years in the creation and development of this publication: its successive editors, member of the editorial board, deans of this faculty, and journal staff. Along the 35 years of its existence, Education and Research has seen significant social, political, cultural and economic changes that involved the society as a whole. Similarly, it had to face the changes in the reality of Brazilian education that impacted the universities and the scene of scientific publications. In this latter aspect, there is cause for celebration, but there is also much to be problematized. In this respect, the contents published and the mode of operation of the journal through the years reflect these transformations and bear witness to the pace and proportions they have acquired, as well as the challenges put before it. From an internal point of view, and after much learning, the journal has, across this wide span of time, grown from its infancy and youth to adulthood, particularly during the last decade. Dr. Marília Pinto de Carvalho was the journal's second editor in this new phase, succeeded by Dr. Lúcia Emília Nuevo Bruno who in 2009 began to share this post with Dr. Teresa Cristina Rego. Despite going through different phases and guidance, the journal retained its original commitment to becoming a periodical sensitive and open to every high quality investigations and reflections produced by the academia, regardless of theoretical or methodological orientations. It has thus kept its purpose of serving as a prime vehicle for the circulation of original articles of the field of education, especially the results of studies of theoretical or empirical nature, surveys of the literature in educational research, and critical reflections about pedagogical experiences. The academic spirit that values plurality and openness to new and original views remains like that of previous times, but we are aware of the fact that the journal of the Faculty has grown and acquired new contours, just like the F...