Higher Education, STI and Inequality: limits and contradictions in times of COVID-19
For at least the last thirty years, the promise has been projected that scientific and technological progress will guarantee economic development and social well-being, realizing the values of reason and well-being for everyone. Contrary to the great hopes and achievements foreseen by the globaliz...
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Núcleo de Estudios e Investigaciones en Educación Superior del MERCOSUR
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/integracionyconocimiento/article/view/36521 |
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| Sumario: | For at least the last thirty years, the promise has been projected that scientific and technological progress will guarantee economic development and social well-being, realizing the values of reason and well-being for everyone. Contrary to the great hopes and achievements foreseen by the globalization movement in the world, today we are experiencing a reconfiguration of exclusion that has been intensified with the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 disease, and which has resulted in the exacerbation of the inequalities that are projected to the world as a fragmented space, in which, a few benefit from the concentration of wealth that leads large segments of the world's population to live on the margins of the so-called "civilization." This is the case of access to higher education in Mexico, but also of its permanence and relationship with inequality. In particular, it is interesting to revalue the relationships between higher education - specifically vocational training in public universities - science, technology and innovation (STI) and their participation in this process, in the light of theoretical perspectives that recognize the capitalist system as main limit to a real transformation in the current socioeconomic structure, even more so in times of COVID-19. From a normative vision that defends the social value of knowledge, we believe that there is a broad framework of opportunities for there to be transversality in higher education policy and that of STI to generate conditions that combat the structure of inequality. |
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