Research Networks and Scientific Production in Education in the Americas: Current Challenges

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Scientific production and the establishment of research and research networks have been one of the current challenges of contemporary times. In an increasingly globalized context, local contexts imprint their own specificities in dealing with the circulation and production of scientific knowledge, as well as the available cooperation and exchange networks in each region. In this sense, this symposium aims to discuss the tensions, challenges, potentialities, and particularities of three countries of the Americas: Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, with respect to scientific production in the education field, as well as experiences with research and collaboration networks. From the highlights of each presentation, it aims to contribute to the debate on how a region can face its specific challenges, such as linguistic and cultural diversity, problems arising from funding, and objective conditions for the development of the area of research in education, as well as the evaluation criteria for scientific production itself.

Sub Unit

• Americas Education Research Network

Chair

• Geovana Mendonça Lunardi Mendes, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

Papers

• Evaluating Academic Work and Scientific Production: Reflections on the Predominant Model in Mexico - Angélica Buendía, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

• Scientific Production and Commercialization - Monica E. Pini, Universidad Nacional de San Martin

• Interuniversity Network of Higher Education Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean - REDE ESIAL - Paulino de Jesus Francisco Cardoso, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil; Anny Ocoró Loango, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero UNTREF

• Red Estrado and the Place of Teaching in Latin America - Dalila Andrade Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Discussant

• Inês Barbosa de Oliveira, University Estácio de Sá