Presentation Thematic Dossier A: Quality of Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

Maria Isabel da Cunha is currently a collaborating professor in the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Pelotas, where she was Pro-Rector of Graduate Studies. She has also worked in the PPG of Education at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). She holds a PhD in Education from the State University of Campinas. She has done post-doctoral studies at the Complutense University of Madrid and held a Senior Internship at the University of Seville. She has coordinated international cooperation projects with Portugal and Argentina. He is dedicated to the area of teacher training and university pedagogy. She has published several books, chapters and articles. She is a researcher 1 A (CNPq). E-mail: cunhami@uol.com.br;   mabelcunha44@gmail.com 

Elisa Lucarelli is a Professor, Licentiate and Doctor in Educational Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA); discipline: University Pedagogy and Didactics. She is also a Researcher Category 1 (maximum) in the National Research System of Argentina. She is a tenured professor (now retired) of Higher Level Didactics at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. She is currently a member of the Research Program Studies on the University Classroom, of which she was the creator and Director. Research Institute of Educational Sciences. FFyl-UBA. Researcher and postgraduate teacher at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero and in other Latin American countries. E-mail: elucarel@gmail.com