Brazil Chemistry Program An International Experiment in Science Education (1979) / Chapter Skim
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'RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENT: LESSONS LEARNED'
'RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENT: LESSONS LEARNED'
Pages 15-20
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Programs of this type, require significant financial inputs and a degree of extraordinary administrative support and flexibility. Thus, a perception that a program will have certain direct benefits to national development and will not merely represent academic or theoretical interests is important.
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The role of the visiting senior professors should be defined, for example, so that their research and teaching experience will be used effectively and they will not simply become "trouble shooters" for the Fellows. The relationship of Fellows to local faculty and graduate students, their status in the university, and their degree of responsibility for research and teaching all need to be carefully defined.
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In a few projects in the Brazil program, considerable time elapsed from the termination of one MAS Fellow to the assignment of a replacement, thus causing disruption in the research and the work of graduate students. The need for continuity is also important with respect to senior foreign professors and the local senior professors.
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Their selection and placement, therefore, assume large proportions in the overall program effort. The experience of the Brazil Chemistry Program demonstrated the need for careful selection of Fellows -- to a very great extent, the success of projects was directly correlated to the initiative and adaptability of the individual Fellow.
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The stature of senior host country professors is crucial in attracting good graduate students to a project and in enlisting the cooperation of other faculty members. The stature of the senior foreign professors also is of great jjnportance for several reasons: association with them can be an important aid in the recruitment of Fellows; their involvement can assist in the raising of funds and in attracting support and cooperation from institutions and from other scientists; and their advice can be an important element in ijiiproving the substance of the research efforts carried out through the program.
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Sufficient flexibility should be encouraged to take advantage of opportunities that seem useful and sensible, even though they may represent departures from the model. In the Brazil program, for example, one or two situations arose in which highly capable young faculty members of Brazilian universities had received training abroad in research lines relevant to the program and thus they performed the same function as the NAS Fellows in other situations.
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