El papel de la investigación en la educación jurídica: Un problema de poder y colonialidad

Germán Silva García; Bernardo Pérez-Salazar

doi:10.5354/0719-5885.2021.61453

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

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Germán Silva García ILAE https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3972-823X
Bernardo Pérez-Salazar Instituto Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2330-646X

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2021.61453

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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

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Silva García, G., & Pérez-Salazar, B. (2021). The role of research in legal education: An issue of power and coloniality. Revista Pedagogía Universitaria Y Didáctica Del Derecho, 8(2), pp. 61–80. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2021.61453