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AROCENA, Rodrigo; COHANOFF, Claudia  e  DAVYT, Amílcar. Education in the Basic Sciences in Latin America: some suggestions for change. Avaliação (Campinas) [online]. 2004, vol.09, n.03, pp.111-130. ISSN 1414-4077.

The main idea of this discussion is the scarce relevance of basic sciences in Latin America. This seems to be the primary cause behind the orientation of the teaching of these disciplines in Latin American universities which is basically directed to the preparation of academic researchers. In many of these universities we can perceive remarkable effort to increase the available capabilities, increasing the number of graduates and improving preparation. In general, achievements are not compatible with the expended energy, because the role of sciences in society do not depend solely on the available scientific capability, but fundamentally on the opportunities to make them creatively available, allowing for feedback which can broaden their meaning and legitimize them. Based on some theoretical considerations to situate our analysis and with the understanding that major challenge Basic Science Schools is the construction of a more solid basis than they enjoy today, we intend to answer, tentatively, the question: How can these schools contribute to deepen and amplify the socio-economic insertion of these sciences in Latin American societies? With the perspective of a redefinition of educational purposes of these schools, we present some concrete suggestions aimed at the displacement of the core purpose of these schools from the education of licentiates to a task which includes the above but is broader: the cooperation to expand the capacity of people in general to used scientific knowledge in socially useful ways.

Palavras-chave : Basic Sciences; Latin America; Teaching.

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