Internationalization in Latin American higher education, a review

Abstract

This article presents a bibliographic review on the strategies and actions of internationalization in higher education institutions that have been published in the portal of the Network of Scientific Journals of Latin America and the Caribbean (Redalyc) in recent decades. The type of research methodology was documentary review. In a first stage, a systemic record of the literature was carried out, which presented articles that described the internationalization tactics in educational entities at the university level, the country where it was established, the participants and the characteristics of the initiative. Subsequently, they were classified according to the type of actions and scope, to finally make a chronological description of the strategies that have been promoted. In this exercise, it was recognized that in the analyzed countries there are state policies that promote the globalization of knowledge, such as guidelines from universities that propose programs with specific actions that allow the process to be operationalized, such as academic events, networks, alliances, courses, presentations, collective projects, articles, among other processes that are supported transversally with the use of information and communication technologies, as well as with the substantive functions of research, social projection, entrepreneurship and innovation.