Trends and Challenges in Science and Higher Education
Building Capacity in Latin America
Editors: Horta, Hugo, Heitor, Manuel, Salmi, Jamil (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction. Democratizing Higher Education and Science in Latin America
Pages 1-26
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The Scientific Productivity and the Dynamics of Self-organizing Networks: Ibero-American and Caribbean Countries (1966–2013)
Pages 29-46
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Towards a Knowledge-Based Economy in Brazil
Pages 47-65
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Current Challenges in Higher Education and Their Implications for Research and Development in Colombia
Pages 67-85
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Internationalization of Chinese Higher Education in Latin American Campuses
Pages 87-102
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Trends and Challenges in Science and Higher Education
- Book Subtitle
- Building Capacity in Latin America
- Editors
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- Hugo Horta
- Manuel Heitor
- Jamil Salmi
- Series Title
- Knowledge Studies in Higher Education
- Series Volume
- 3
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-20964-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-20964-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-20963-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-79324-5
- Series ISSN
- 2566-7106
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIV, 310
- Number of Illustrations
- 44 b/w illustrations
- Topics
