Trends and Challenges in Science and Higher Education Building Capacity in Latin America /

This book discusses the role that integrated science and higher education policies may play in further democratizing and promoting social-economic development in Latin America. It suggests that such democratizing and development may be achieved in two complementary ways: i) broadening the access to...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Horta, Hugo (Editor ), Heitor, Manuel (Editor ), Salmi, Jamil (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Knowledge Studies in Higher Education, 3
Temas:
Education, Higher.
Education and state.
International education .
Comparative education.
Higher Education.
Educational Policy and Politics.
International and Comparative Education.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction. Democratizing higher education and science in Latin America. M. Heitor and H. Horta, IN+/IST, Portugal
  • 2. Prologue I: Engaged development - Homage to Albert Hirschman and Oscar Niemeyer. J.C. Ferraz, BNDES, Brasil
  • 3. Prologue II: Everyone For Education - Advocacy for Education in Colombia. Juan David Aristizábal and Victor Saavedra
  • Part I: Emerging issues in science and higher education in Latin America
  • 4. The scientific productivity and the dynamics of self-organizing networks: Iberoamerican and Caribbean countries (1966-2013). Guillermo A. Lemarchand, Division of Science Policy and Capacity Building, UNESCO
  • 5. Towards a Knowledge-based Economy in Brazil. Anne-Marie Maculan, UFRJ, Brasil
  • 6. Current Challenges in Higher Education and their Implication for Research and Development in Colombia. Marta Losada, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Colombia
  • 7. Internationalization of Chinese higher education in Latin American Campuses.  Jae PARK
  • 8. The academic profession in Latin America: between a corporatist and a professional ethos. Elizabeth Balbachevsky, University of São Paulo, Brazil.-Part II: Policies and instruments to foster scientific capacity
  • 9. On the processes of technical change and development in Latin America: a proposed framework of analysis. L. Lepratte, Facultad Regional Concepción del Uruguay - UTN, Uruguay
  • 10. Research assessment of public research centers in Mexico: an instrument of science policy. S. Estrada and Aguirre, Universidad de Guanajuato, México
  • 11. Promoting research careers in the business sector: assessing public policy instruments in Brazil and Chile. E.A. Arancibia Gutiérrez, F. Chaves do Couto and Silva Neto, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
  • 12. Itaipu Technology Park, a territorial development tool. Juan Carlos Sotuyo and Maria Angélica Jung Marques, Itaipu Technology Park Foundation
  • Part III: Networking and Industry-science relationships
  • 13. On the dynamics of industry-science relationship: Brazil 1980-2012. E. Stal and A. Fujino, PGT/Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
  • 14. On the evolution of research networks: the case of micro technologies in Mexico. E. Robles-Belmont, Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • 15. Research networks and the relevance of higher education: lessons learned from veterinarian sciences in Argentina 2006-2010. F. Di Meglio, L. Mayoral y J. Araya, Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Problemáticas Internacionales y Locales (CEIPIL), Argentina
  • Part IV: New horizons for scientific and higher education development in Latin America
  • 16. Looking forward: Building capacity in Latin America. M. Heitor, H. Horta, J. Salmi.

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