Is There a Latin American Model of the University?

Bernasconi, Andrés

doi:10.1086/524305

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“…Consequently, a considerable number of faculty members developed their careers in both sectors. This feature accurately portraits a dynamic found in the main systems of higher education in the region (Bernasconi 2008). Given this situation, no major inter-sectoral distinction in the academic labor market was found.…”

Section: A Limited and Selective Growth: An Isomorphic Approachsupporting

confidence: 69%

“…Administration boards with less student representation, and departmental design instead of the classic chair model, demonstrate that some new public institutions also found their inspiration in foreign designs, particularly the US design. It must be taken into account that the chair system is the model that historically has defined how faculty members are distributed within ranks in the Latin American university (Bernasconi 2008). Thus, such behavior shows that in terms of its organizational forms and practices, and particularly in what is related to the decision making process at the faculty level, public-private differentiation also tended to blur.…”

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The Private University Sector in Argentina: A Limited and Selective Expansion

Rabossi

2011

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The expansion of the private university market was part of a global trend that grew vigorously at the turn of the twenty first century. Although private demand has long dominated Southeast Asian countries, Latin America has also witnessed a dramatic shift toward non-public options since the early 1990s. However, not all countries in the region reacted alike, and Argentina can be an exception to this global private expansion. In fact, the State is still the dominant actor, fulfilling its role as the main demand-absorber of post-secondary students. In a market where the private sector was not always "welcomed," the objective is to study the development of the private university market in Argentina, paying special attention to the main particularities of this growth. This dynamic will be studied from an isomorphic approach to understand what have been the main consequences in terms of organizational forms and practices before a dominant and controlling State. AbstrakEkspansi pasar universitas swasta menjadi tren dunia yang tumbuh pesat di akhir abad 21. Selain mendominasi negara-negara Asia Tenggara, tren universitas swasta juga melanda Amerika Latin yang secara dramatis menjadikan institusi non-publik ini sebagai opsi pada awal 1990an. Namun, tidak semua negara di wilayah tersebut menunjukkan respon sama. Di Argentina misalnya, pemerintah masih menjadi aktor dominan, memegang perannya sebagai institusi utama yang menyerap calon mahasiswa. Dengan pasar swasta yang tidak selalu mendapat sambutan ini, kami berupaya menelaah tren universitas swasta di Argentina, khususnya mengenai karakter pertumbuhan institusi ini. Perkembangan ini dianalia dengan pendekatan isomorfik (isomorphic) untuk menyelidiki beberapa konsekuensi pokok dari pola dan praktek organisasi ketika peranan pemerintah masih dominan dan berkuasa penuh.

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Section: A Limited and Selective Growth: An Isomorphic Approachsupporting

confidence: 69%

Section: Resultsmentioning

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The Private University Sector in Argentina: A Limited and Selective Expansion

Rabossi

2011

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“…Bernasconi (2016) charts the evolution of the Latin America model of higher education, currently grappling with tensions between co-governed developments of social transformation and the economically-driven standards of the knowledge landscape. In Ecuador, the multibillion dollar investment in higher education over the last decade has allocated money across scholarships, technical education, excellence, admission and accreditation, innovation and contingency plans (telesurtv 2017).…”

Section: Journal Of Current Cultural Researchmentioning

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Academic Publishing and its Digital Binds: Beyond the Paywall towards Ethical Executions of Code

Swist

Magee

2018

Cult. Unbound

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In this article we explore various constraints and potentials of academic publishing in the digital age. Advancement of digital platforms and their expansive reach amplify the underlying tensions of institutional and scholarly change. A key affordance of these platforms is that of speed: rapidly distributing the outputs of a precaritised profession and responding to pressures to publish as well as the profit motive of publishers. On the one hand, these systems make possible alternative modes of contributory content and peer-production for supporting the commons. On the other, they turn all too readily into privatising devices for contracting labour and profit in the corporate sector and, within the academy, for accentuating subtle power effects. Drawing upon platform studies and integrating insights from political philosophy and property law, our article seeks to problematise neat binaries of possession and dispossession associated with the sector. We examine in particular how co-existing and emergent socio-technical circuits-what we term digital binds-modulate the political economy of academic publishing on a number of scales. These entangled binds constrain but also indicate mechanisms for opening up new possibilities. We introduce three ethical executions of code towards this end: dissuading, detouring, and disrupting. Together, these mechanisms show how mutually beneficial boundaries can be drawn for designing otherwise: by blocking dominant systems and bargaining for fairer practices; exploring sanctioned and unsanctioned systems which offer more diverse publishing pathways; and, disrupting systemic processes and profits towards more inclusive and equitable conditions.

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“…In this process, overseas trained and highly qualified scientists returning home has been important for upgrading the technological capabilities for the absorption of international technical knowledge (Albuquerque, 2001). In contrast, from the early period of economic development, universities in Latin America focused on the education of a small number of 'professional elite' (particularly, outside the field directly applicable to industry and agriculture) (Bernasconi, 2008;Ribeiro, 1969). The key difference between the Korean and Latin American cases is the scale of provision of domestically trained engineers during industrialisation.…”

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Evolution of Universities and Government Policy: the case of South Korea

Kwon¹

2015

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This paper investigates the two academic revolutions of the Korean higher education system. Since economic catch-up began in the 1960s, Korea has strongly encouraged the activities of its higher education system to serve industrial development as it has progressed through various developmental stages. At the 'strong regulation' stage, universities focused on the provision of technicians. As the need for higher education grew, the 'massive expansion' stage emerged. Finally, most recently, university research and its direct contribution to the economy have been invigorated by strong governmental support. Possibly, this is due to the fact that the Korean government has strongly controlled not only industry but also academia. As long as other East Asian universities have similar conditions to those of the development of Korean universities, we can generalise this model not only to universities in other East Asian countries, but also to universities in other rapid catch-up countries.

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Is There a Latin American Model of the University?

Cited by 103 publications

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The Private University Sector in Argentina: A Limited and Selective Expansion

The Private University Sector in Argentina: A Limited and Selective Expansion

Academic Publishing and its Digital Binds: Beyond the Paywall towards Ethical Executions of Code

Evolution of Universities and Government Policy: the case of South Korea

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