Overview
- The first volume to focus on science and higher education in Latin America as a whole
- Presents perspectives that give direction to policy-making in Latin America
- Discusses fundamental issues and challenges of science policy
- Provides an encompassing analysis of multi-level relations in Latin America
- Brings the important issue of institutional diversity in higher education to the Latin American context
Part of the book series: Knowledge Studies in Higher Education (KSHE, volume 3)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Emerging Issues in Science and Higher Education in Latin America
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Policies and Instruments to Foster Scientific Capacity
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Networking and Industry-Science Relationships
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New Horizons for Scientific and Higher Education Development in Latin America
Keywords
- broadening access to higher education in Latin America
- democratizing higher education and science in Latin America
- higher education diversity
- policy-making in Latin America
- science-university relationships
- scientific and higher education development in Latin America
- self-organizing networks
- social unbalances in higher education
- social-economic development in Latin America
- the academic profession in Latin America
About this book
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 knowledge through formal learning processes of higher education, and ii) promoting the advanced qualification of people while strengthening research institutions. The book shows how this entails a complex process of policy integration, with an emphasis on human resources and institutional issues combined in processes of technical change. It discusses in detail the three main challenges that most Latin American countries face in a globalized age, based on knowledge and ever-evolving learning processes. These challenges are the need to broaden the access to higher education; to make this access more socially balanced; and to recover from a long gap in investing in knowledge production and dissemination. This book treats these issues from a variety of conceptual and methodological perspectives that present a contribution to the field of science policy and higher education studies, and inform policymakers in Latin America.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trends and Challenges in Science and Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Building Capacity in Latin America
Editors: Hugo Horta, Manuel Heitor, Jamil Salmi
Series Title: Knowledge Studies in Higher Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20964-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20963-0Published: 08 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79324-5Published: 28 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20964-7Published: 01 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2566-7106
Series E-ISSN: 2566-8315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 310
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education