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The Crucial Presence of Private Higher Education in Latin America
(Boston College. Center for International Higher Education, 2016-09)
During a recent "summit" meeting of leading Latin American higher education scholars and practitioners, key developments in Private Higher Education (PHE) became the topic of many meaningful discussions. This article reports ...
Access to higher education and the reproduction of inequalities in Córdoba, Argentina
(Societa Editrice il Mulino, 2017-04)
The growth of higher education offering in Latin America is the result of both, a rise in student demand and the development of public policies favouring the democratization of universities, as is the case of Argentina, ...
Exploring Equity in Higher Education Systems: Reflections from Argentina and Chile
(Boston College. Center for International Higher Education, 2019-03-13)
Public debates on equity in higher education usually focus on the impact of admissions and funding policies on systems as a whole. More specifically, it is assumed that, first, the more selective the admission criteria and ...
The Higher Education System in Argentina. Networks, Genealogies and Conflicts
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-10)
The present manuscript aims to identify the genealogies, understood in a Foucaultian perspective, which leads to the actual Higher Education System in Argentina, by distinguishing how series of events are organized, ...
Higher Education, Educational Policy and Citizenship Development
(James Nicholas Publishers, 2017-04)
Given the fact that countries can differ in their educational policy and practice and that these national contexts are influenced by international developments makes it interesting to do comparative research into policy ...
To profit or not to profit: the private higher education sector in Brazil
(Springer, 2018-05)
Brazil has by far the largest higher education system in Latin America, with a sizable share of students enrolled in private-sector institutions. Its recently established and fast-growing for-profit sector is one of the ...
What Role Do I Play in My Learning? A Study on the Academic Engagement of Higher Education Students
(European Center For Science Education and Research, 2018-12)
The study of academic engagement has gained international visibility due to various factors operating in the social environment, such as fragmentation, ´liquidity´ in interpersonal relations, etc., which end up affecting ...
U-Multirank and Latin American Universities
(Boston College. Center for International Higher Education, 2016-01)
The first U-Multirank survey was launched in 2014. It is a multi-dimensional and user-driven approach to international ranking in higher education, and includes more than 850 higher education institutions worldwide, some ...
A teaching strategy for education in health in Brazil: Dialogic problematizing inquiry
(Universidad Estatal Paulista, 2014-10)
This paper presents a teaching strategy for education of health professionals called “Dialogic Problematizing Inquiry” (DPI), which was evaluated in the course “Teaching Methodology in Health Education”, promoted by the ...
"Mine is an atypical case": An analysis of life stories about the experience of higher education drop-out
(Sciedu Press, 2019)
This paper is derived from a field study in the framework of my doctoral dissertation, in which we analyze life stories (Bertaux, 2005) of young people who have discontinued their studies at the University of Buenos Aires ...