Research Partnership Over Neocolonialism: Max Planck Society Policy in Latin America

Emerging Decolonialized Research Collaboration: The Max Planck Society and the Leibniz Association in Latin America

“…This may explain why the research networks they built are also less global. These findings provide evidence to support Pineda and Streitwieser’s (2018) earlier argument on the capacity that the MPS’s policies may be contributing to a more international profile. The MPS shares practices that can be helpful for understanding better ways to decolonialize research from the North, while also giving an opportunity to the South to advance its own intellectual scientific output.…”

“…We chose the MPS and the LA because each one has a distinctive, basic, and applied research emphasis, which allowed us to make wider inferences about the degrees and forms of collaboration that exist among different countries. We are interested in cooperation instruments, understood as actions such as the creation of positions to promote collaboration, establishment of research facilities abroad, and research groups or recruitment processes of foreign scientists and students (Pineda & Streitwieser, 2018). On the Latin American side, collaboration instruments (Pineda, 2015b) may include the previous as well as mechanisms to support scientific activities and indirectly the creation of scientific networks such as long-term programs for supporting universities, scholarships for advanced scientific education, stable and competitive funds for basic and applied research, and research hubs in specific areas.…”

“…In the same line, Mazzoleni and Nelson (2007) argue that foreign scholars coming from abroad and nationals studying abroad have enabled countries such as Brazil to “catch-up.” Pineda and Streitwieser (2018) show that the failures to connect to wider research programs in Latin America can not only be explained merely by invisible agendas emanating from the North but must also consider the needed stability of programs and research funds that may help to partially counterbalance the Northern domination of research agendas. Government higher education and science policies may explain, for example, the higher research productivity and establishment of research networks by Chilean researchers in contrast to other countries, such as Colombia (Pineda, 2015b).…”

“…Reflections on potential power relationships inherited from colonial legacies, however, are usually absent in this literature. Although critical perspectives may offer an approach to the study of research collaboration that involves power and cultural imbalances, current theoretical reflections (Pineda & Streitwieser, 2018; Woldegiyorgis et al, 2018; Zingerli, 2010) are often not based on empirical, bibliometric data. An overview of the current scientific landscape is therefore needed as a way to account for the validity of decolonial arguments in contemporary research collaboration.…”

El vortex de programas online en la formación de profesores en Colombia

“…This idea of best practice often includes the notion of innovation and the insertion of the logic of economics and engineering into teaching (Pineda & Streitwieser, 2018;Ramirez, 2010;Ramirez & Tiplic, 2013). Teachers are often confronted by managers or students who see more prestige in teachers who present themselves as innovators rather than as professionals guided by educational tradition and evidence-based pedagogical reflection.…”