Research ability in Chemistry and the Tuning Latin America specific competences:
a comparative study at University of Cuyo (Argentina)

Iris Valeria Dias, Armando Fernández Guillermet, Carina E. Rubau, and María M. Tovar Toulouse

About Authors

 

 Iris Valeria Dias (irisdias_228@yahoo.com.ar)  works at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEN), Universidad Nacional de CUYO (UNCUYO, Mendoza, Argentina where she is a lecturer in Chemistry and a PhD student in  Education (at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras). She is a member of the research project “Development of general education and research ability in an interdisciplinary context in undergraduate studies”. Her research focuses on Education in Basic Sciences and Higher Education.

 

  Armando Fernández (armando.fernandez.guillermet@gmail.com) is Principal Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina, Professor at Instituto Balseiro (Bariloche, Argentina) and visiting Professor at Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEN), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO, Mendoza, Argentina). He has published papers in international refereed journals and book chapters in the field of thermodynamics and thermochemistry of solids and materials. He is a recipient of the “Werner-Köster-Preis: Best Paper Award” of the German Society for Materials and Carl-Hanser-Verlag (1994). Since 2006, he chairs the University Council for Exact and Natural Sciences (CUCEN) of Argentina and has chaired the Physics Subject Area Group of the Tuning Latin America Project (2006-2013). He edited the book Higher Education in Latin America: reflections and perspectives on Physics (2014) with the results of the Physics Subject Area Group. Dr Fernández has presented papers on the Tuning Project and the competence approach at various academic meetings. At FCEN-UNCUYO, he currently coordinates an interdisciplinary research group on Education in Sciences and Higher Education. Dr Fernández holds a Ph.D. and a “Docent” (post-doctoral) degree in Physical Metallurgy from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden).

 

 Carina E. Rubau (crubau@yahoo.com.ar) works at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEN), Universidad Nacional de CUYO (UNCUYO, Mendoza, Argentina). She teaches in Education at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, UNMdP, Argentina. She is specialist in Higher Education Teaching (UNMdP) and is presently doing a PhD degree on Education (at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras – UNCUYO). She also lectures in “History of Science” at FCEN-UNCUYO, and is a member of the research project “Development of general education and research ability in an interdisciplinary context in undergraduate studies”. Her research focuses on Education in Basic Sciences and Higher Education.

 

 María M. Tovar Toulouse (mechisbrc@gmail.com) works at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEN), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCUYO, Mendoza, Argentina) where she is a teacher of English and a PhD candidate in Education. She coordinates the programme ‘Students´ Academic Trajectories’ (TRACES for its acronym in Spanish) and is a member of the research project “Development of general education and research ability in an interdisciplinary context in undergraduate studies”. Her research covers Education in Basic Sciences, Second Language Learning, and Higher Education.