Revista Iberoamericana de Educación Superior

The Evolution of Higher Education Governance: A Comparative Analysis between Chile and Ecuador

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This study reviews changes in higher education governance in Latin America, developing a conceptual approach to analyze the reforms and their impacts in Chile and Ecuador, highlighting their similarities and differences. The extended Clark's triangle is used to explore these transformations. The results identify the post-reform trajectories of both countries. In Chile, the regulatory reforms enhanced the role of the state as evaluator and funder, consolidated a more regulated private market, and reduced the influence of the academic sector. In Ecuador, they reduced the state’s control but strengthened its role as evaluating agency, increasing the influence of higher education institutions and universities, and promoting more managerial approaches in private higher education institutions. The reforms brought about greater state intervention in Chile and less state intervention in Ecuador, with significant changes in both countries.

Social Inclusion in an Elite University: Voices of Students from Socially Discriminated Sectors

2025-01-21T02:59:38+00:00

In this article, the authors analyze the impact of the “Si quieres, ¡puedes!” (“If you want, you can”) program on social inclusion at an elite university in Mexico. A mixed-methods case study of the first two generations was carried out, exploring how the students’ success (academic and social integration and empowerment) favors inclusion. The results reveal a careful design of the program in its equity mechanisms (induction, financial, and academic support). However, they also highlight that the students' success requires a disproportionate personal and family effort to meet institutional standards. The program meets the academic and professional perspectives, but there are still economic, academic, psychological, and institutional commitment barriers that hinder social inclusion.

Ethnic Identity of Students at the University of El Salvador

2025-01-21T03:00:57+00:00

The status of native peoples in El Salvador has historically been typified by marginalization, exclusion, and ethnocide. Cultural syncretism and miscegenation make it difficult to identify these populations. A statistically representative study was carried out on a quantitative basis to determine the degree of ethnic identity of the students of the University of El Salvador. 73 % of the students self-identified as mestizos and only 13.73 % as indigenous. Indigenous languages are rarely used. Ethnic identity is somewhat weak and uniform among the general population, but 40 % of the students or one of their parents were born in areas with a significant indigenous presence.

Back to the Face-to-face Education: A Perspective of Students on Educational Changes

2025-01-21T03:02:32+00:00

This article presents the opinions and appraisals about the types of education: remote, hybrid, and face-to-face. Dealing with the changes that have taken place in recent years, the authors analyze the students' views on the topic, their preferences, and their positive and negative characterization. A survey was conducted in Mexico City at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco unit, at the beginning of 2023 when the students had already gone through the three modalities. The results show a preference for the face-to-face modality; however, the explanation, reflection, and expression of the students’ feelings allow us to understand their general positions and, in particular, the favorable and unfavorable perceptions towards each modality.

Teaching yoga: Changes Over the Years

2025-01-21T03:03:40+00:00

This article is part of a broader research entitled Dance and Yoga, which investigates the links between these two disciplines. The concern arose because dancers, teachers, and choreographers currently include yoga as part of their training, and some professional dance schools integrate it as a compulsory or complementary subject in the curriculum for the dancers' training. The advances I present focus on aspects related to the teaching of yoga, I divided them into: 1) what is yoga; 2) the commitments of the guru (teacher) and the śiṣya (student); 3) a guru of the twentieth century: B.K.S. Iyengar; 4) the classroom in the practice of yoga; and 5) the aids or props. To elaborate on it, I relied on two types of sources: documentary and testimonial. Among the documentary sources, I reviewed classic yoga books, and texts by authors who are experts in postural yoga and Asian studies. As testimonial sources, I carried out twelve interviews, of which I took up comments from three, highlighting the one with Raya Uma Datta, a yoga teacher from India.

Hispanic Universities and Gender: An Approach from the State of the Art

2025-01-21T03:14:37+00:00

The topic of gender in universities is usually approached to learn about the conditions and experiences of the women who integrate them. Although the Anglo-Saxon literature is extensive on this subject, in the case of Hispanic universities in Latin America, it is a relatively new topic. For this reason, a state-of-the-art study was carried out to provide clues about this phenomenon in Hispanic American universities. The documentary review revealed the prevalence of gender inequality in these spaces. Although its elimination is an international goal, women continue to face discrimination, violence, segregation, and other forms of inequality in the university environment, affecting their academic and professional development, as well as their well-being. It was also found that the intersectional approach is little addressed in this line of research, but it is positive, in terms of gender perspective, that the research reviewed comes mostly from women scientists.

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Contenido del número.

Directorio de la RIES

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Analysis of the Supply of Postgraduate Programs in Pedagogy in Colombia: Trends, Gaps, and Challenges

2025-01-21T03:07:46+00:00

This article analyzes the trends in the supply of postgraduate training in pedagogy in Colombia, in an attempt to identify gaps and existing needs. A mixed methodology was chosen, which included the review of open data from the National Statistical Information System, as well as an analysis of the curricular conditions of the programs. The authors conclude that it is necessary to diversify the offered modalities of programs to make access easier for remote regions and broaden the offer of training in pedagogies, inclusion, and work with culturally diverse communities.

An Academic System for Part-time Faculty in Mexican Higher Education: The Case of Two Public State Universities

2025-01-21T03:09:05+00:00

The purpose of this article is to present an academic system established in Mexican public higher education, which has a determining influence on the configuration of part-time faculty, and on the academic career in general. The theoretical reference is the perspective of policy regimes (ideas, institutional arrangements, and actors), discussed through the conceptual tool called causal factors: structural-economic, political-normative, and institutional. These factors determine the system and act as both constraining and, at the same time, stimulating elements of the current academic and work situation of part-time faculty. For the development of this argument, a documentary-type methodological approach is proposed, based on a descriptive case study of two state public universities in Mexico: The University of Guadalajara and the Autonomous University of Querétaro. From both perspectives, a series of premises, reflections, and conclusions emerge which seek to contribute to the study field of the academic career and this emerging actor.

The Effect of Career Choice on Quality in Higher Education Institutions

2025-01-21T03:12:17+00:00

Demand for educational services offered by higher education institutions is a key indicator of quality. Determining the factors and the magnitude of their effects on baccalaureate graduates when choosing a career and where to study it is a useful tool in the quality management process for this type of institution. This work aims to identify and quantify how these factors impact the choice of college and university. To achieve this objective, a second-order linear predictive model is developed, with the career choice factor as the endogenous variable and factors such as the institution’s prestige, economy, location, services, infrastructure, and emotional factors as exogenous variables. The model is estimated on a sample of 237 students which is analyzed using the method of structural equation modeling with a partial least squares approach. The expected values of the six parameters considered in the linear model are statistically significant. Five of these values, which have the greatest effect on the endogenous variable, are not significantly dissimilar. The lowest value with a consequential difference from the rest corresponds to that of the exogenous location variable.