EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR PÚBLICA EN AMÉRICA LATINA: CARACTERÍSTICAS Y DESAFÍOS

Abstract

The author makes a characterization of the principal challenges that public higher education faces, especially since the past 90 decade, in the Latin American context. It begins with the role that public higher education has accomplish to promote the democracy, public modernization strategy, the legitimacy and political stability, and its essential role as an agent of social mobility in the transmission of culture. It refers to the demands of the actual challenges of society that waits to the higher public education, and the capacity to respond these demands in a competitive way in correspondence to the challenges of the emergent society of knowledge. In search of a sustained social development, with a educational and social inclusive project.

Keywords

• higher education
• latin america
• challenges
• globalization