Abstract

FRUCHI, André José; CALDERON, Adolfo-Ignacio; SALCEDA, Josefina Patiño  and  BUSTOS, Margarita Figueroa. From academic doctorates to professional doctorates: Comparative analysis of experiences in Ibero-America. Ensaio: aval. pol. públ. educ. [online]. 2024, vol.32, n.122, e0243959.  Epub Mar 01, 2024. ISSN 1809-4465.  https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-40362024003203959.

Professional Doctorates (PD) as a model of doctoral training, parallel to and independent from the traditional Academic Doctorates, began to expand throughout the 1990s in countries of the Anglo-Saxon world, echoing timidly in Ibero-American countries. This article carried out a comparative study between the PDs of Brazil and Mexico, the only countries in the Ibero-American region that have created PDs in their educational systems, aiming to analyze their convergences, divergences, and specificities. This is an exploratory, analytic-descriptive, bibliographic, and documental study. Among other important findings, it is noteworthy that unlike the Mexican norms that relate PD specifically to the professional development of doctoral students, in Brazil there is a broader, prevailing conception aimed at increasing the productivity of companies and public and private organizations, technology transfer and the production of innovative knowledge.

Keywords : Professional Doctorate; PhD; World Class University; Brazil; Mexico.

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