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Call to publish scientific articles that will be received between June 20 and November 20, 2019, referring to:

University Pedagogy: With topics such as public policies in higher education, legislative system and reforms, academic programs, comparative policies, massification processes, quality assurance, legal professions, and others in higher education as a general field, referring to the Chilean and international context .

Didactics of Law: With topics whose centrality is related to processes of innovation, learning, curriculum, innovations, teaching experiences, students and teachers characterization , among others in legal education in the Chilean and international context.

Ethical and citation standards (Chicago-deusto) must be taken care of, in addition to the originality of the research or innovation.

The role of research in legal education: An issue of power and coloniality

Authors

Abstract

This article breaks ground explaining the benefits of using legal and socio-legal research in legal pedagogy. It offers a critical review of research quality assessment systems currently in use in the social sciences, taking criminological research as a case to illustrate the analysis. Among its findings, it reveals that the quantitative, bibliometric, and formal model adopted by Colombia´s Ministry of Science to rank the quality of journal articles in social sciences, based mainly on SCOPUS and WOS indexes, does not necessarily lead to top quality research. Instead, it damages sovereignty, restricts the freedom to research, reaffirms cultural colonialism, and negatively affects the potential benefits of using research as an input in legal pedagogy. It concludes suggesting a more open and pluralistic research quality assessment system for social sciences.

Keywords:

Legal pedagogy; legal education, sociolegal research, research quality assessment, bibliometrics, criminology.

Author Biographies

Germán Silva García, ILAE

Doctor en Sociología de la Universidad de Barcelona, máster en Sistema Penal y Problemas Sociales de la misma casa de estudios, abogado de la Universidad Externado de Colombia; investigador del ILAE (Grupo de Investigación Historia, Conflictos y Cambio Social). Su correo electrónico es germansilva.ilae@hotmail.com

Bernardo Pérez-Salazar, Instituto Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios

Candidato a Doctor en Educación de la Universidad Santo Tomás, máster en Planificación del Desarrollo Regional del Institute of Social Studies, La Haya, Países Bajos, comunicador social de la Universidad del Valle; investigador del ILAE grupo de Investigación Historia, Conflictos y Cambio Social. Su correo electrónico es bperezsalazar@yahoo.com