society of Salvadorans have little or no interest in science in general, no means no technology like that seen around they can borrow to buy a new phone, or place your LCD or Plasma last, but have no idea how they work. People are ready to enjoy the fruits of science, but do not want to accept their methodology to describe nature. We must make a remark to the statement previous Salvadoran society is not the only one with this particularity, and does not explain the whole picture, in the United States 40% of Americans prefer to believe the biblical version of creation of the world, to understand the biological mechanisms of evolutionary theory; Even so, the United States are emerging among the regions with the highest scientific production.
However, in an urban environment, people are willing to spend their time either at church or shopping, to go to a museum.
course!, As if the offer was the best museums, and there's the other point, the country's infrastructure does not allow its citizens really are interested in science, scientific supply is almost nonexistent, we see independent efforts of NGOs that are in the role of advocacy and education in science, but their number is small compared with other NGO's who are dedicated to building homes health or even masquerade as local development to introduce a particular political agenda.
educational institutions
But science, as such, is not promoting or disclosure, science is based on scientific research to produce them and socialize knowledge. And let's be clear, this country's scientific research is almost, almost, almost nonexistent.
We have universities, more than you can count on both hands, despite this, we are not a society of knowledge that universities have become a machine for making money, or license individuals who seek a degree that allows them access to a better job as a clerk.
The universities in question, in its broad category, from state to private with their motley differences investigated. Yes, oddly enough, there is a tiny research on them, as ministerial demands, universities have an obligation to establish within your organization research departments. And those departments, have a sense jewelry that interest, because the university is also seen as an educational center rather than a research center. And universities are governed by education administrators and methodologists, focus more to the monetary flow of the institution or the formality of the teaching that the same construction of knowledge.
And then within the same investigation are vices and bad practices, "every law has a loophole" when the ministry forced by decree to research universities, institutions began to filter out works that were undergraduates in their work review or understanding and scientific research. Must see, to write an article is a very serious matter, present guise as a scientific paper work is a real misdeed, which also includes practices that range from science fairs to present (where most of the students recycle some experiments of years past and send it to construct a workshop) to publish surveys or social diagnoses no proposals or solutions as scientific research. The Ministry of Education
only takes into account the amount of "research" and not the quality of them. not analyze whether these "investigations" meet international standards to be taken into account as scientific production.
From scientists
And then there is a big problem in generating scientific, we are unable to provide a good mass of citizens who invest their time and life science, schools, places of detention seem to do everything less teach children the love of science and interest in the unknown.
Of the minority of Salvadorans who come to college, among them, the vast majority choose careers that short interest in working in an office or study, that scientific careers, so there are 1000 national law students to 1 archaeological or 1000 students to one of chemical communication pure, it denotes the concept that people have in science careers, preferring to run "real" that races with which they believe will end up being college professors.
Then there is the brain drain, people with difficulties trains in the country, and that fortunes of life get a degree abroad, either paying or scholarship-end up migrating, and so, the few which we will end up leaking. And those who return are marginalized and mired in political bickering administrators and managers who resist change or tear down their own paradigms.
What about professionals involved or want to Salvadorans pursue careers in science?, some work their research in their spare time, with jobs "real" and struggle to produce.
Those who can and do work in one of the few research centers have a big problem that their leaders, who usually are not scientists or teachers, but administrators do not understand the dimension of science, or methodology, and the department research becomes an office, with your coffee and your work schedule, and people working on "science", like accountants or project planners. All this love of literature to obtain access to international libraries is not the norm in universities Local
And then in the background is the big problem of attitude of Salvadoran scientists are divided in groups, or schools, there is hatred, envy everywhere, fights and gossip become true divas, criticize each other. Often prefer to spend their time building cardboard castles in which to house their egos, rather than production and socialization of knowledge.
If we put a world map, where all countries were of a certain size according to the number of publications in physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, research biomedical engineering, technology, space science and earth, El Salvador, this tiny country of less than 21 square miles, disappears.
As shown in the map above *. We
fried.
And then there is a big problem in generating scientific, we are unable to provide a good mass of citizens who invest their time and life science, schools, places of detention seem to do everything less teach children the love of science and interest in the unknown.
Of the minority of Salvadorans who come to college, among them, the vast majority choose careers that short interest in working in an office or study, that scientific careers, so there are 1000 national law students to 1 archaeological or 1000 students to one of chemical communication pure, it denotes the concept that people have in science careers, preferring to run "real" that races with which they believe will end up being college professors.
Then there is the brain drain, people with difficulties trains in the country, and that fortunes of life get a degree abroad, either paying or scholarship-end up migrating, and so, the few which we will end up leaking. And those who return are marginalized and mired in political bickering administrators and managers who resist change or tear down their own paradigms.
What about professionals involved or want to Salvadorans pursue careers in science?, some work their research in their spare time, with jobs "real" and struggle to produce.
Those who can and do work in one of the few research centers have a big problem that their leaders, who usually are not scientists or teachers, but administrators do not understand the dimension of science, or methodology, and the department research becomes an office, with your coffee and your work schedule, and people working on "science", like accountants or project planners. All this love of literature to obtain access to international libraries is not the norm in universities Local
And then in the background is the big problem of attitude of Salvadoran scientists are divided in groups, or schools, there is hatred, envy everywhere, fights and gossip become true divas, criticize each other. Often prefer to spend their time building cardboard castles in which to house their egos, rather than production and socialization of knowledge.
If we put a world map, where all countries were of a certain size according to the number of publications in physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, research biomedical engineering, technology, space science and earth, El Salvador, this tiny country of less than 21 square miles, disappears.
As shown in the map above *. We
fried.
* Image obtained from www.worldmapper.org section education / research.