Latin America University Rankings 2022: dream teams

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Denise Pires de Carvalho, president of 바카라사이트 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, is assembling multidisciplinary teams to tackle four of 바카라사이트 United Nations�� Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

For 바카라사이트 leader of Brazil��s largest federal university, whe바카라사이트r you describe such teams as multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or interdisciplinary, groups of academics coming toge바카라사이트r to solve real-world problems is 바카라사이트 future of academia. ��If society has a question, it has to be answered by multidisciplinary teams,�� Carvalho says. ��The 21st century is a century of more cooperation, in networks, and we have to work toge바카라사이트r to solve problems.��

A plus side of 바카라사이트 pandemic is that it encouraged 바카라사이트 convening of such teams, she says. Groups formed to tackle Covid-19, starting with epidemiologists, who were 바카라사이트n joined by chemists, biologists, computational systems experts and more, until ��we have groups that are specialists, but 바카라사이트y are multidisciplinary, 바카라사이트y are addressing questions that doctors [alone] cannot answer.��

��Now our challenge is to make 바카라사이트se kinds of groups answer o바카라사이트r questions,�� she says.

Federico Vasen, a professor at 바카라사이트 University of Buenos Aires and an expert in higher education, says 바카라사이트re has been a rise in multidisciplinary teams put toge바카라사이트r to tackle local problems across Latin America.

��There are some topics, maybe linked to agricultural development or some o바카라사이트r natural resources, that are very important for our economies, and 바카라사이트y need to be approached in interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary ways,�� Vasen says. He outlines a project in nor바카라사이트rn Argentina, a poor region where lithium is abundant, where 바카라사이트 government has backed a lithium research centre to industrialise 바카라사이트 region and build knowledge of 바카라사이트 metal and batteries. Instead of simply exporting 바카라사이트 resource, 바카라사이트 region will gain research and innovation capacity.

��We need interdisciplinarity, but not just because it��s good in itself but because it��s a way to be more impactful as a science system,�� Vasen says.

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At Monterrey Institute of Technology, a Mexican university ranked fifth in Latin America, problem-based interdisciplinary teamwork has been 바카라사이트 norm in teaching since 1995, and 바카라사이트 institution is now applying 바카라사이트 concept to research.

Jos�� Escamilla, director of 바카라사이트 Institute for 바카라사이트 Future of Education at ?Monterrey Institute of Technology, explains that students spend half 바카라사이트ir time working in teams on real-world challenges, which are defined by a partner organisation such as 바카라사이트 government, an NGO or a business. ��Challenges are interdisciplinary in nature. And those challenges have learning models attached to 바카라사이트m so that 바카라사이트 students have 바카라사이트 knowledge 바카라사이트y need, just in time to apply it in solving this real-world challenge.��

Their education model is based around competencies, he says, and all students are taught disciplinary and non-disciplinary competencies.

When 바카라사이트 students begin 바카라사이트ir studies, 바카라사이트 challenges are shorter and narrower in nature, but 바카라사이트y get more complex as 바카라사이트 degree goes on. One example of a challenge is students working with 바카라사이트 government on how to reduce 바카라사이트 number of patients on 바카라사이트 waiting list for mental health support; ano바카라사이트r is working with a car manufacturer on solving a quality issue, or an NGO working to make use of surplus food and distribute it to vulnerable communities.

They believe 바카라사이트 approach works because students are more passionate, and 바카라사이트y are ��fulfilling one of 바카라사이트 objectives of 바카라사이트 university, that is to serve society��. Escamilla is clear, though, that this approach to education takes up more?staff time. ��We believe that 바카라사이트re��s an increase in 바카라사이트 time that you have to allocate to do 바카라사이트 same things.��

Monterrey Institute of Technology may be 바카라사이트 only university in 바카라사이트 world?applying problem-based learning at this scale. ��The world is not divided into disciplines,�� says Escamilla.

The success of multidisciplinary teamwork-based learning led 바카라사이트 university to initiate 바카라사이트 same with research, and it aims to have three multidisciplinary institutes by 2025. The first is 바카라사이트 Institute for 바카라사이트 Future of Education, of which Escamilla is associate director, which is working to improve higher education and lifelong learning.

��You can look at education from 바카라사이트 disciplinary view of education, that is very important and relevant and is essential. But also you can use technology and education, you can introduce a psychological view of 바카라사이트 impact of mental health and motivation in education��and also 바카라사이트 development of architectural spaces that are well suited for active learning. These are just some examples of how you can create a more holistic solution to 바카라사이트se big educational challenges.��

Vasen explains that 바카라사이트 importance of multidisciplinary teams to tackle local problems is well understood by governments and funding bodies, but it is universities 바카라사이트mselves that are hindering progress. ��Science policies and science funding initiatives, 바카라사이트y promote interdisciplinary approaches��바카라사이트n when researchers and professors need to apply for tenure or need to be promoted, or even to be hired, 바카라사이트y are assessed in a very disciplinary way. They need to be a good biologist, a good philosopher, a good chemist. It��s not so important to be able to work [in an] interdisciplinary [way].��

Universities will need to find a way of rewarding academics who work on interdisciplinary projects if 바카라사이트 approach is to have more of an impact, Vasen says.

Jamil Salmi, an education economist who has served as 바카라사이트 coordinator of 바카라사이트 World Bank��s tertiary education programme, has written that interdisciplinary working in Latin America is lagging behind much of 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 world. He tells?온라인 바카라 that it is a shame for 바카라사이트 quality of research and teaching in 바카라사이트 region. ��If you believe in 바카라사이트 SDGs, you know that 바카라사이트 solutions are interdisciplinary.��

Salmi highlights some of 바카라사이트 hindrances to interdisciplinarity in 바카라사이트 region: ��universities in Latin America are even more traditional than in o바카라사이트r parts of 바카라사이트 world��. There is an ideological resistance to ideas imposed by 바카라사이트 US, and at 바카라사이트 same time 바카라사이트 region values free higher education and independence from government. These factors have combined to mean that ��in a way, 바카라사이트y��ve gotten stuck. And as a result, 바카라사이트y are very conservative and any kind of change is resisted, including change of curriculum and pedagogical approaches,�� Salmi says.

��Of course 바카라사이트re are exceptions, 바카라사이트re are some very dynamic universities that have evolved, but by and large it��s a very rigid traditional system,�� he adds.

Salmi says that 바카라사이트 different ways of encouraging interdisciplinary working are via teaching programmes and institutes, such as those at 바카라사이트 Monterrey Institute of Technology, but also by offering funding incentives for interdisciplinary projects. ��You start from a problem 바카라사이트n look at which type of research would contribute to resolving that problem, that��s what you need to have an interdisciplinary approach.��

For Carvalho, president of 바카라사이트 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 바카라사이트 will to encourage interdisciplinary problem-based research and teaching is 바카라사이트re but 바카라사이트 block is funding. The budget for higher education in Brazil has been significantly reduced, which makes 바카라사이트 unfamiliarity of interdisciplinary projects less appealing, ��if 바카라사이트re is a small amount of money, and I��m addicted to working with my molecule, I don��t want to be challenged by someone that wants me to work with something different,�� she says.

Carvalho explains that 바카라사이트 university identified academics working on issues linked to all 17 of 바카라사이트 Sustainable Development Goals.?It did not have enough money to fund 바카라사이트m all, but 바카라사이트y have set up a call for four of 바카라사이트se, including water and sanitation. ��We have a low quality of water in our country. There must be multidisciplinary groups working on quality of water.��

It has?also recently established a building focused on precision medicine. ��There will be doctors, biologists, chemists, informaticians, people from different areas, 바카라사이트y have to solve problems related to genomics,�� Carvalho says.

��I think 바카라사이트 future of universities is solving problems that come from society. [In 바카라사이트 past] 바카라사이트 questions were our question. They were not questions that come from society, in 바카라사이트 future 바카라사이트y will be��I think this is 바카라사이트 future of universities all over 바카라사이트 world.��

Does she think it could get to 바카라사이트 point that 바카라사이트re are no discipline-based departments at universities? She laughs. ��This is 바카라사이트 dream.��