- July 31, 2023
- AI, Education, Emotional Intelligence, Future, Graduation, Higher Education, Pandemics, Student
A message to the students of the Class of 2023, wherever they are, the Class of the Pandemic (2019-2023). At the beginning of the sowing, we prepared the land, the seeds, and the plow. This sowing was expected to remain the same as the previous ones. This cohort of students reaching the end of their […]
Humanism and Educational Technology Must Coexist
- June 24, 2023
- AI, EdTech, Education, Educational Theory, Humanism, Learning, Liberal Arts, Philosophy, science, Technology
The segmentation of fields of knowledge has led to the fragmentation of language, producing a generation of professional people incapable of communicating between one branch of knowledge and another and, increasingly, between the cultures of science and the humanities. The false dichotomy between formative education in the sciences and the arts requires a radical change […]
The Academic and Administrative Ethnocentrism of the Contemporary University
- 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 […]
Utopian and Strategic Planning for Development and Change
- February 9, 2023
- Business, Development, Economics, Education, Essay, Philosophy, Planning, Social Philosophy, Sociology
The purely expansionist ‘realistic’ strategic planning model typifies today’s society and causes an anti-climax in planning, turning it into a simple matter of forecasting, systematic organization, and the subordination of desirable human goals to foreseeable economic development. Does strategic planning make all the right moves? The concept of development has been used in economics, […]
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, […]
La violencia en la escuela estadounidense: déficit afectivo y ético
- December 7, 2022
- AccesoArmas, Desigualdad, Diversidad, Educación, Education, Intercultural, Política educativa, Violencia
Para los jueces norteamericanos, los factores desencadenantes de delincuencia están por este orden: familias rotas, drogas, paro, chabolas y educación deficiente. En cambio, para la opinión pública estadounidense, la influencia de drogas, la falta de formación moral y la disponibilidad de armas son los elementos más resaltados de la delincuencia juvenil. La violencia en la […]
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 […]
El fuego de Prometeo y la antorcha del conocimiento
- September 23, 2021
- Cambio social, Educación, Education, Ensayo, Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Psychology, Universidad
Un día los dogmas que siguen encadenando al ser humano se disolverán frente a una conciencia tan inundada de luz que será capaz de hacerse una con el sol, y esta conciencia arribará a esas playas ideales donde residen la dignidad y libertad humanas. Elisseus Elitis. Discurso de aceptación del Premio Nobel de Literatura 1979 […]