OPINION – Fifth Edition 2023 of the Pedro Krotsch Prize for Studies on the University
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the Gino Germani Research Institute of the University of Buenos Aires (IIGG, UBA) announce the results of the Call for essay proposals “Fifth Edition 2023 of the Pedro Krotsch Prize for Studies on the University”, organized jointly.
Pedro Krotsch was a prominent Argentine sociologist who worked with and trained several generations to develop free thought. He was a professor and researcher at various universities in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, where he was forced into exile during the last military dictatorship that ravaged Argentina.
Created in 2009 and with successive editions in 2010, 2011, 2014 and 2017, this edition of the Prize sought the submission of proposals that could be national, regional, case studies or cross-cutting themes, and could be based on empirical studies or be theoretical developments, where postgraduate students, professors and researchers interested in the study of university higher education, endorsed by Member Centers of the CLACSO network, participated in pairs or individually.
We congratulate the authors who responded to this Call and submitted their essay proposals.
The 27 proposals received were deemed suitable for evaluation by the International Committee. The Committee considered the quality, relevance, coherence, and timeliness of the proposals, in accordance with the Call for Proposals guidelines.
The evaluation process was carried out by an International Committee made up of the following experts: Daniela Atairo (Argentina), Adrián Acosta Silva (Mexico), Adriana Chiroleu (Argentina), Mónica de la Fare (Brazil), Raúl Muriete (Argentina), Rosalba Genoveva Ramírez García (Mexico) and Martín Unzué (Argentina).
The evaluation, based on anonymized work, assessed the quality of the essay proposals submitted, as well as their soundness and intellectual contribution to the issues addressed in the Call for Papers.
Furthermore, given the quality and relevance of most of the works, the organizing institutions decided award 4 honorable mentions, In addition to 6 proposals established in the terms of the Call for Proposals.
Within 90 days of this notification of results, authors must submit their final essay according to the guidelines defined in the Call for Papers. Once submitted, a further evaluation will be conducted for inclusion in the digital publication, which will be a co-edition between CLACSO and the IIGG and will be available in open access, free of charge.
According to the evaluation carried out, the list of the 6 (six) essay proposals selected and the 4 mentionsThe final essays will form part of the publication (once approved).
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Researchers |
Central country that endorses |
Essay title |
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Andrés Santos Sharpe |
Argentina |
How do we choose? Career choices and the commodification of the university in the post-pandemic era |
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Sonia Araujo |
Argentina |
University, knowledge and evaluation. A perspective for discussing old problems |
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Nora Beatriz Gluz – Marcelo David Ochoa |
Argentina |
Tensions between policies of decommodification of access to university and meritocratic persistence in academic production. |
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Oscar Gilberto Hernández Salamanca |
Colombia |
The pedagogical dimension of university evaluation |
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Ricardo David Cuenca Pareja |
Peru |
State and university: university reform and counter-reform in Peru, 2001-2023 |
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Francisco Antonio Hernández Abano |
Venezuela |
Commodification of “scientific knowledge”; “new academic culture” of university privatization in Latin America. The case of Venezuela |
The payroll of the 4 (four) essay proposals with mention is:
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Researchers |
Central country that endorses |
Essay title |
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Jorge Antonio Mayorga Lazcano |
Bolivia |
Thinking about research evaluation at the intersection of scientific fields: the case of the Universidad Mayor de San Simón (Bolivia) |
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Virginia Guadalupe Reyes |
Mexico |
Inter-epistemic dialogue in the university as a process of knowledge assessment. |
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Pablo Dávalos |
Ecuador |
The University in Crisis: Neoliberalism and the Decline of Critical Thinking |
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Lucía Trotta – Fernanda Saforcada |
Argentina |
The Latin American university in tension: between privatization strategies and disputes over the law |
This ruling is irrevocable and cannot be appealed.
Buenos Aires, August 16, 2023.
