Political and socio-cultural trends and challenges of contemporary higher education in latin America.

Abstract

This review article reflects on some trends and socio-cultural challenges facing higher education in Latin America. It performs a theoretical approach regarding, the different meanings of the changes that are processed from globalization policies and their relationship with the educational field of a university order. In this sense, higher education acquires relevance in the new way of renewing knowledge and responding to the social and economic problems of a region and nation. It´s designated, a set of trends such as massification, content organization, distance learning technologies, the knowledge society, cultural diversification and, aspects such as evaluation and research. In the second section, it is analyzed how the processes of coverage, inclusion and, equity work, thus denoting that progress has been made in the task of guaranteeing the right to education, but it cannot be ignored that there are still aspects to improve so that this is accessible to all learners. Subsequently, some relevant advances in higher education are presented in countries such as Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico. Finally, it was concluded that higher education presents great challenges and challenges, due to the great socio-cultural transformations and its responsibility is focused on providing a pertinent response to social needs, through the new knowledge generated from the implementation of investigative processes.