- April 12, 2023
- Education, Ethics, Faculty, Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Staff, Student, University Culture
Much of the crisis in the quality of university education has this dichotomy as its background: the crisis of the relationship between the person who teaches and the person who learns. A university where professors and students must foremost be lifelong learners; and where the study programs are designed, modified, and transmitted daily based on […]
Learning Forever: Deconstructing Current Education
- March 1, 2023
- distance learning, EdTech, Educational Philosophy, Learning, Lifelong Learning, Psychology
The education system will rediscover its true role of serving the individual, helping to educate people in mastering cognitive skills and the ability to think, developing a critical awareness of reality, developing affective domains, and cooperating with others around them. Information will no longer take pride of place in this system since it can be […]
Innovation for Change in Higher Education Management
- January 19, 2023
- Development, Higher Education, HigherEd Management, Institutional Change, Strategic Planning
The development of universities and the intermittent reforms that they undergo are a reflection of the whims of their leaders, although these may sometimes result in appropriate decisions being taken. Reforms and counter-reforms are almost always the results of the appointment of a new president or rector, provost or dean, and not of a consistent […]
Issues Comparing Classroom and Online Education
- December 12, 2022
- distance learning, e-Learning, EdTech, Education, Educational Philosophy, Online Ed, open education
Open education consists of the reason and essence for education, as it would be inadequate to contrast the term open education with closed education. It would be impossible to understand any type of closed education. The concept of open education embraces all types of true education and guides it in four directions: open to all populations, […]
The Psychological, Social and Cultural Nature of Education
- January 24, 2022
- Education, Educational Philosophy, Emotional Intelligence, Intercultural, Learning, Psychology, Social Skills
Let me share with you on the International Day of Education some thoughtful ideas about the psychological, social, and cultural nature of education in a few paragraphs, extending them to education professionals, teachers, mentors and professors. How we should instill in their teaching profession the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that are related to the affective […]
Corporate Management Is An Unfit Model for Education
- December 20, 2021
- Accountability, EdTech, Education, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, HigherEd Management
Among all the social forces that are intervening in the development of the education systems is the productive sector of the economy, which has a direct impact on the labor market. However, this sector has failed to forecast the type of jobs and professions that it will need in the medium and long-term (and many […]
Is Higher Education Centered on the Student or the Faculty?
- November 9, 2021
- Education, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, HigherEd Theory & Praxis, University Policy
The backdrop to many university crises has been precisely these dichotomies: the crisis of the relationship between the individual who teaches and the individual who learns, between the member of the ‘academic ethos’ and the member of the ‘social ethos’ and also between the individual who teaches and the one who administers. The academic ethos […]
Lifelong Learners
- July 19, 2021
- Education, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Learning, Lifelong Learning, Social Philosophy, University
«In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.» Recently, during an education conference, I referenced a passage from the beautiful and profound story of Alice in Wonderland. One of the characters of the story, the […]
What Do We Mean for Cross-Cultural Research in Psychology
- March 27, 2021
- Anthropology, Education, Intercultural, Neuroscience, Psychology, Research Methodology
The main purpose of cross-cultural research in psychology and education is the elaboration of general and specific objectives to the cultures involved without distorting an articulate common goal. Generalizations, very common in social disciplines, must be supported empirically to satisfy the external validity of the conclusion. The advantage of the cross-cultural approach as compared with the single […]
Pandemics, Leadership, and Social Ethics
- October 10, 2020
- Economics, Education, Ethics, Health, Pandemics, Politics, Psychology, Sciences, Social Philosophy
This Viewpoint argues that the absence of worldwide social ethics is at the root of our present social, political, and economic crises. More to the point, the current COVID- 19 pandemic is, in part, a consequence of insufficient scientific research, inappropriate education systems, and globally fragile health structures and human services. The COVID-19 pandemic we […]