Argentinean expert discussed research incentives at UCM

The academic from the Universidad Nacional del Plata in Buenos Aires, Norma Rodriguez, explained the most outstanding results of the Incentive Program for Research Teachers, which was implemented 21 years ago in the trans-Andean country.

A tour of the indicators of the Program of Incentives for Research Teachers, made the professor of the National University of La Plata in Argentina, Norma Rodriguez, during a talk she gave at UCM.

The event, organized by the Department of Research in University Teaching (DIDU, in Spanish), was part of the third conference that analyzes models that promote the research work of professors.

“In Argentina, as a result of the conditions of the incentive program, all teachers working in national, provincial or public and private universities have the obligation and responsibility to teach classes and carry out research, with paid hours for this purpose,” said the doctor in Educational Sciences, regarding the policy that was born in the trans-Andean country in 1993.

“Teachers do not teach a subject alone; we do it as a team. This allows us to carry out research within the chairs and publications that we call ‘collections’. The university makes an annual call for the publication of books in this sense, which remain in an open repository for free download. So the student does not read a scientific paper, which is a more complex text, but texts that are written for them. This also breaks the barrier that the researcher is in heaven and the teachers are on earth,” she added.

The III National and International Conference on Research in University Teaching brought together representatives from six Latin American institutions, such as Dr. Egeslaine de Nes from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, Dr. Eliana Montoya from the Universidad de San Buenaventura in Colombia, Dr. Paulo Contreras from the Universidad Austral de Chile, Dr. Francisco Gallegos from the Universidad Autónoma de Chile and Dr. Jonathan Andrades from the Universidad Católica del Maule.

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