​Internationalization of Higher Education in Latin America, How Does it Contribute to Sustainability?

Abstract

The internationalization processes of higher education in Latin America, like the whole world during the XXI century, have significantly increased their prominence in the higher-level educational agenda, being a practice that is presented from multiple options and strategies, all of these leading to strengthen the paradigms of globalized education and context for the modern world; However, every corner of the world has adopted multiple options to favor these internationalization practices even more, when the pandemic generated by COVID-19 made it possible to imagine education in a very different way, which indicates that it cannot be intended to adopt a single model that allows to achieve the indicators and goals that are presented in each higher education center in terms of internationalizing education and educational processes; Thus, this document presents an analysis of these practices that are carried out in the Latin environment. Similarly, it seeks to understand what is the contribution that internationalization has generated in favor of sustainability, understanding the latter, from the social, economic and financial perspective; In such a-way-that-they-seek-to-identify-the-relevant-aspects-that-denote-a-contribution-in-favor-of-a-more-sustainable-world, which has been forced to change its way of acting as a result of the pandemic that the 21st century brought.