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This book raises fundamental questions about the propriety of continuing to use a premedical curriculum developed more than a century ago to select students for training as future physicians for the twenty-first century. In it, Dr. Donald A. Barr examines the historical origins, evolution, and current state of premedical education in the United States. One hundred years ago, Abraham Flexner's report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada helped establish the modern paradigm of premedical and medical education. Barr’s research finds the system of premedical education that evolved to be a poor predictor of subsequent clinical competency and professional excellence, while simultaneously discouraging many students from underrepresented minority groups or economically disadvantaged backgrounds from pursuing a career as a physician. Analyzing more than fifty years of research, Barr shows that many of the best prospects are not being admitted to medical schools, with long-term adverse consequences for the U.S. medical profession. The root of the problem, Barr argues, is the premedical curriculum—which overemphasizes biology, chemistry, and physics by teaching them as separate, discrete subjects. In proposing a fundamental restructuring of premedical education, Barr makes the case for parallel tracks of undergraduate science education: one that would largely retain the current system; and a second that would integrate the life sciences in a problem-based, collaborative learning pedagogy. Barr argues that the new, integrated curriculum will encourage greater educational and social diversity among premedical candidates without weakening the quality of the education. He includes an evaluative research framework to judge the outcome of such a restructured system.This historical and cultural analysis of premedical education in the United States is the crucial first step in questioning the appropriateness of continuing a hundred-year-old, empirically dubious pedagogical model for the twenty-first century.

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Este libro está dedicado a la universidad como protagonista de cambios. El texto lleva a comprender la universidad como ámbito de la relación indivisible de organización-sistema, en donde el todo es más que la suma de las partes, y el producto es el conocimiento como fin, medio y fundamento para el desarrollo de la persona (sentido crítico) y la respuesta al entorno (razón instrumental). A lo largo del texto se va construyendo la imagen de la universidad-ecosistema productora de novedad, donde la única certeza es la incertidumbre y que, además está en permanente crecimiento espiral, que transforma su entorno apuntado a la construcción de la ciudadanía responsable y la persona libre; la espiral del conocimiento sin control de casualidad. Un ecosistema, como el de la universidad propuesta, se encuentra en permanente construcción y deconstrucción, es el comenzar que es crear permanentemente con el presente y el pasado que está ya asumido en el presente. Redescubrir la frescura natural de un ecosistema inmerso en la universidad, y la vivencia pura de comunidad, nos llevará de la mano a quienes presumimos de catedráticos, al origen más puro del conocimiento humano que tienen saber de vida, a la pureza refrescante de lo inédito y el valor auténtico de lo ingenuo, para que en ese instante seamos nosotros, comunidad en la que se autoorganiza y construye proyectos de vida, cultura y destino.

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A obra reúne 33 textos, organizados em sete capítulos: I- Comércio internacional e relações de fronteira; II- Integração regional; III- Desenvolvimento regional; IV- Desenvolvimento e meio ambiente; V- Desenvolvimento e novas tecnologias produtivas e sociais; VI- Desenvolvimento e participação social; VII- Desenvolvimento e políticas públicas. A obra resulta de seleção dos trabalhos melhor avaliados pelo Comitê Internacional da Rede CIDIR no “VIII Simpósio Iberoamericano de Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento e a Integração Regional”. Trata-se de evento internacional itinerante realizado pelas instituições da Rede, alternando edições no Brasil, na Argentina e no Paraguai. Os sete capítulos traduzem os temas prioritários de discussão, reflexão e produção do conhecimento que perpassam as atividades desenvolvidas pela Rede CIDIR que, em 2017, comemorou seus dez anos de funcionamento. Como Rede de pesquisa, ela reúne 22 Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) do Brasil, Paraguai, Uruguai, México, da Argentina, Venezuela e Espanha, com foco prioritário de integração e socialização do conhecimento nas áreas de Ciências Humanas, Sociais e Sociais Aplicadas.

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Experiencias, vivencias y reflexiones sobre la realidad actual de la educación universitaria forman parte de esta publicación. La transición de una educación mayoritariamente presencial a una educación de emergencia a distancia con la proyección de un futuro de un sistema híbrido, exige nuevos retos. Los cambios no pueden ser solo de forma: la crisis provocada por la pandemia demanda transformaciones en varios aspectos: la modalidad, el ritmo, los roles de estudiantes y docentes, la metodología, las formas de evaluar, las características del aprendizaje síncrono u asíncrono, el uso de la tecnología. Todo esto implica la construcción colectiva de una nueva realidad educativa orientada a la formación de una ciudadanía activa, con herramientas personales y profesionales para mejorar la realidad social actual.

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This book traces the development of a fully marketised higher education system in England over a 30-year period and identifies five distinct stages of market reforms culminating in the Higher Education and Research Act (HMSO, 2017). The Act shifted the risks of institutional failure (and the prospect of market exit) onto applicants, presenting them with ever more applicant choice information and encouraging them to use their consumer behaviour to oblige weaker providers lower tuition fees or lose market share to new competitors. The new regulatory regime represents a marked departure from previous attempts to introduce market dynamism into the sector and places the English HE system at the forefront of a global trend of system marketisation. The book employs a critical policy discourse analysis and addresses several key aspects of the current higher education policy landscape. It considers the extent to which there been a continuity of policy from the encouragement of efficiencies and accountability in the 1980s to the emphasis on competition and risk in 2017; whether the marketisation process is designedly cumulative or has developed in response to factors beyond the control of policymakers; and what the English case can tell us about the nature of neoliberalism and the future trajectories of other national systems in the process of marketising and differentiating their institutions.

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