La universidad ante los retos del siglo XXI

La universidad ante los retos del siglo XXI
Author: Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim
Publisher: UADY
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2003
Genre: Education, Higher
ISBN: 9789706980366

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Knowledge Matters

Knowledge Matters
Author: Diana Rhoten
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2011-02-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0231521839

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Higher education can be a vital public good, providing opportunities for students, informed citizens for democracy, and knowledge to improve the human condition. Yet public investment in universities is widely being cut, often because public purposes are neglected while private benefits dominate. In this collection, international scholars confront the realities of higher education and the future of its public and private agenda. Their perspectives illuminate the trajectory of education in the twenty-first century and the continuing importance of the university's public mission. Reporting from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America, these scholars look at the different ways universities struggle to serve public and private agendas. Contributors examine the implications of changes in funding sources as well as amounts, different administrative and policy decisions, and the significance of various approaches to assessment and evaluation. They ask whether wider student access has in fact resulted in social mobility, whether more scientific research can be treated as an open-access resource, how changes in academic publishing change access to knowledge, and whether universities get full value from research sold to private corporations. At the same time, these chapters capture the confusion in the university sector over explaining academic work to a broader public and prioritizing its multiple purposes. Authors examine these practical challenges and the implications of different approaches in different contexts.

La universidad en la sociedad del siglo XXI

La universidad en la sociedad del siglo XXI
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Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Economica USA
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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Humanidades : La Universidad y las dos culturas: una integración necesaria / Rafael Puyol / - Los desafíos de las humanidades en Brasil y en el mundo / Jacques Marcovich / - La Universidad ante el futuro de las humanidades / Darío Villanueva / - La Universidad pública en Bolivia / Augusto Argandoña / - Investigación : Presente y futuro de la investigación y el desarrollo tecnológico en las universidades españolas / Saturnino de la Plaza / - La investigación científica en las universidades de América Latina. Características y oportunidades / Rafael Guarga / - Empresa : Conocimiento, empresas y nuevas tecnologías en la universidades del siglo XXI / Andrés Pedreño Muñoz / - Hacia una universidad emprendedora / Jaume Pagés Fita / - La Universidad y los retos del nuevo siglo / Oscar J. Shuberoff / - Desarrollo social y empresarial en la Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Experiencias y proyectos / Ubaldo Zuñiga Quintanilla / - Sanidad : Etapas de la formación médica en España / José Ma. Sego ...

Reflexiones sobre la misión de la universidad en el siglo XXI

Reflexiones sobre la misión de la universidad en el siglo XXI
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Publisher: Dykinson
Total Pages:
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Genre:
ISBN: 8413772826

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La Universidad es una institución que se crea relativamente tarde en la historiade la humanidad. Aunque la organización de los estudios y la transmisión de losconocimientos de la época ya se había producido en la antigüedad clásica, Atenas,Roma, Berito y Constantinopla, son los ejemplos más destacados, se suele atribuir al siglo XII el nacimiento de la Universidad en sentido moderno, y considerar a Bolonia, Paris y Oxford como las más antiguas universidades reconocidas como tales.El nacimiento de las universidades españolas tiene lugar en los primeros decenios del siglo XIII: 1212 en Palencia, 1215 en Salamanca y aproximadamente 1260 en Valladolid.La Universidad es un producto histórico. No la entenderemos, ni podremos construir la universidad del futuro, si desconocemos o no tenemos en cuenta, para desecharlo o asimilarlo, lo que esta ha sido en los siglos pasados y es en el momento presente.

Sustainable Development Research and Practice in Mexico and Selected Latin American Countries

Sustainable Development Research and Practice in Mexico and Selected Latin American Countries
Author: Walter Leal Filho
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319705601

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This book provides an essential overview of sustainable development research in Mexico. It discusses the empirical research methods and findings, as well as practical initiatives and projects being pursued in Mexico and other countries in the region. Although a number of Mexican universities are now conducting high-quality research on matters related to sustainable development, there are few publications that offer a multidisciplinary overview of research efforts for a broader audience. This book addresses that gap in the literature, providing researchers at Mexican universities – including those from other countries working in Mexico – with an opportunity to present their work, i.e. curriculum innovations, empirical work, activities, case studies, and practical projects. As such, it fosters the exchange of information, ideas and experiences, successful initiatives and best practices.

Implementing Sustainability in the Curriculum of Universities

Implementing Sustainability in the Curriculum of Universities
Author: Walter Leal Filho
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-11-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319702815

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This book presents sustainable development themes across universities and introduces methodological approaches and projects to the teaching staff. It has been prepared against this background, to identify ways to better teach about sustainability issues in a university context. It contains a set of papers presented at a Symposium with the same title, held at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) in March 2017. The event was attended by a number of institutions of higher education active in this field. It involved researchers in the field of sustainable development in the widest sense, from business and economics, to arts and fashion, administration, environment, languages and media studies. Sustainability is seldom systematically embedded in the curriculum at higher education institutions. Yet, proper provisions for curricular integration of sustainability issues as part of teaching programmes across universities are an important element towards curriculum greening. The aims of this book are: (i) to provide teaching staff at universities active and/or interested in teaching sustainable development themes with an opportunity to document and disseminate their works (i.e. curriculum innovation, empirical work, activities, case studies practical projects); (ii) to promote information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of teaching courses, especially successful initiatives and good practice; (iii) to introduce methodological approaches and projects which aim to offer a better understanding of how matters related to sustainable development can be tackled in university teaching. Last but not least, a further aim of this book, prepared by the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) and the World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre (WSD-RTC), is to catalyse a debate on the need to promote sustainable development teaching today.

History of Universities: Volume XXXIV/1

History of Universities: Volume XXXIV/1
Author: () (Kevin) Chang
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192659170

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. History of Universities XXXIV/1 contains the customary mix of learned articles which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. This volume offers a global history of research education in the ninteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume compares the training of scholars in different disciplines and countries across the globe in a century that laid the foundation for modern academia. The articles in this volume examine the different training "instruments" and methods for text-based disciplines (history and philology), laboratory sciences (such as chemistry), theoretical sciences (mathematics, for instance), fieldwork disciplines (linguistics and paleontology), and clinical science (medicine). They consider countries or societies in Europe, North America, South and East Asia, and Latin America, and analyze the roles of the state, nationalism and internationalism that shaped the institutions and policies for research education. Some of these articles are comparative, while the others are in-depth case studies of individual disciplines in specific countries at different stages of scientific developments. The introduction and conclusion of this volume bring together the important themes that run across the article and make necessary supplements to present a synthetic picture of the global history of research education.