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Crossroads of Higher Education in Troubled Times Facing the Future of Work and the Subjective Well-Being of Professionals in Latin America

In: Higher Education - New Approaches to Accreditation, Digitalization, and Globalization in the Age of Covid

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  • Sandra Elena Iturrieta Olivares

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The effects of massification, fragmentation and segmentation in higher education have been exacerbated by the state of current affairs. Latin America has been especially shaken, due to e.g., political changes resulting from massive expressions of social discontent following 2019; or the arrival of COVID-19, its interruption of the quotidian, and its impetus for technology to burst into professional work. In this context, three major crossroads for higher education - resulting from bibliographical and document analysis and integration - are presented in the paper, "Rethinking undergraduate training in social sciences from the imaginaries of the future about professional work". The paper discusses development in the current context, the future of professional work, and subjective well-being in professionals. To face these challenges, the conclusions propose the exercise of prognostic intelligence as an alternative. Prognostic intelligence is a professional skill that can be developed during higher education. Its practice would eschew the presentism characteristic of our turbulent times in favor of expanding the possibilities of outlining the future of higher education on the basis of relevance, quality, and stability.

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  • Sandra Elena Iturrieta Olivares, 2022. "Crossroads of Higher Education in Troubled Times Facing the Future of Work and the Subjective Well-Being of Professionals in Latin America," Chapters, in: Lee Waller & Sharon Waller (ed.), Higher Education - New Approaches to Accreditation, Digitalization, and Globalization in the Age of Covid, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:245486
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.99999
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    Keywords

    higher education in complex times; future of work professional; subjective professional well-being; Latin America;
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    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions

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