Is There a Latin American Model of the University? es la pregunta que se formula Andrés Bernasconi en su más reciente artículo, publicado en Comparative Education Review, vol. 52, no. 1. de 2007.
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In this new scenario of massification, diversification, and economic change, what, if anything, is left of the Latin American idea of the university? Has a new model emerged? Are there different paradigms for different institutional types or strata? Are there national variations worth considering?
In this article I approach these questions through a cross-national, regionwide survey of recent literature on universities in Latin America, with emphasis on the countries whose universities have occupied a regional leading and influential position and for which the literature is most abundant and accessible: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. The choice of three of these four nations is also guided by the detailed documentation and analysis provided by Levy (1986) on the history and evolution of the higher education systems of Brazil, Chile, and Mexico up to the mid 1980s, which serve as a baseline for exploration of the two ensuing decades. Argentina, not one of Levy’s country cases, is nonetheless relevant not only for being the origin of the Cordoba reform but also because of the size of its tertiary education sector (third in numbers of students enrolled after Brazil and Mexico), and the significance of its academic accomplishments, which, measured by the numbers of ISI-indexed articles published between 1981 and 2002, is second only to Brazil (closely followed by Mexico).
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