RETOS DE LA PROFESIONALIZACIÓN DE LA EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR EN ECUADOR: LECCIONES EXTRAPOLADAS DE LA EXPERIENCIA JAPONESA

Citation:

Otto Federico von Feigenblatt and Carlos Gavilondo. 2/28/2022. “RETOS DE LA PROFESIONALIZACIÓN DE LA EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR EN ECUADOR: LECCIONES EXTRAPOLADAS DE LA EXPERIENCIA JAPONESA.” Revista Observatorio Iberoamericano de la Economía y la Sociedad del Japón, 13, 37, Pp. 6-15.

Abstract:

Ecuadorian higher education has undergone major changes in the last two decades. The reforms initiated by former President Rafael Correa have continued to promote a strict process of professionalization of higher education in the South American country. Challenges such as the transformation of a faculty mostly with higher education credentials at the undergraduate level to a faculty at the doctoral level, the shift of emphasis from teaching to research, and great challenges from the political-economic point of view, have resulted in periods of institutional oscillation and high levels of conflict between the different interested groups. The Japanese experience of restructuring and internationalizing its higher education in the late 90s and early twenty-first century helps to identify some best practices that could be applied in other countries that are facing difficulties in this difficult process. This study concludes that part of the process must include a drastic change in the incentive structure at the macro level and it has also resulted in a temporary administrative centralization to overcome the most painful stages of the transformation.