Some attributes of university autonomy in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico: another turn of the screw

Abstract

This article reflects on the notion of university autonomy and highlights its social construction and its many historical, epistemological and political dimensions. It also illustrates the context and the ways in which it manifests itself today in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, as its main academic actors. Some empirical indicators that seek to capture, at least preliminarily, the complexity of the notion were built. The three countries illustrate how they configured their autonomy, which inherited cultural traditions and was shaped by the autopoietic development of their educational systems