POSTGRADUATE STUDIES IN PANDEMIC

virtuality and internationalization from a biographic-narrative approach

Resumo

The article analyzes, from the narratives of management academics at the National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina, the various potentialities and tensions that the COVID 19 pandemic and the virtualization of the courses produced in the internationalization of postgraduate courses at the Argentine university. From a biographical-narrative methodological approach, the study shows that virtuality made possible facilities of hiring international teachers for the delivery of seminars, the extension of the enrollment of the new cohorts remotely, the optimization of the study and thesis writing times. In the same way, the pandemic increased the difficulties of thesis students to carry out their field work, the absence of face-to-face instances of encounter and exchange, the impossibility of traveling to carry out training stays abroad and the health risks that this entails. Thus, the article recovers the main effects of the pandemic on Argentine postgraduate training and its internationalization, assuming said context as a propitious time for the production of situated knowledge.