- December 29, 2025
- Educación, Educacion Permanente, Educación Superior, Essay, Ética, Formación, Futuro, Psicología
En apenas cinco años, el tiempo promedio mínimo de formación de un profesional universitario, la estructura de las profesiones y el mercado de trabajo cambian y se diversifican. Sin embargo, la universidad se aferra a esquemas tradicionales del currículum y planes de estudio, fomentando una formación desacompasada con la realidad de nuestros días y de […]
Strategic Planning and Utopian Thinking for Change
- September 1, 2025
- Business, Development, Economics, Education, Essay, Philosophy, Planning, Social Philosophy, Sociology
The purely expansionist ‘realistic’ strategic planning model typifies today’s society and causes an anticlimax 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? Utopian thinking becomes a way of testing the boundaries of […]
Luis Manuel Peñalver, una vida con sentido ético
- April 28, 2025
- Conferencia, Discurso, Educación, Ensayo, Essay, Ética, Humanismo, Liderazgo, Universidad, Vision
El 28 de abril de 2004 muere el Dr. Luis Manuel Peñalver. Días más tarde, me llega la triste noticia. Las circunstancias de efervescencia política y social de Venezuela hicieron pasar un poco desapercibido un hecho que, en otro momento, hubiese alcanzado la gran dimensión que se merece. Reviso la prensa venezolana de esos días […]
The emotions we have left to experience: between wisdom, hope and uncertainty
- May 18, 2024
- Aging, Cognition, Cognoscitivo, Emoción, Emotion, Ensayo, Envejecimiento, Essay, Psicología, Psychology
The critical undertaking when reaching old age, if memory continues to govern our cognitive future, is to keep hope and romanticism intact, the desire to contribute and keep creating, to expand the feeling of love as far as the horizon can be perceived, to continue observing the world with the eyes of experience and […]
The fragmentation of knowledge
- December 29, 2023
- Essay, Humanities, Philosopy of Science, Psychology, science, Social Ethics, Social Philosophy
One of the pioneers of computing, Konrad Zuse, once said that “the danger of computers becoming human-like is not as great as the danger of humans becoming a computer.” (Hersfelder Zeitung, September 12, 2005). The fear of the machine person, of the person naked of feelings, pains, joys, and passions, has arisen several times in […]
My Teaching Philosophy: An Intimate Reflection
- April 16, 2022
- Educational Philosophy, Essay, Ethics, Higher Education, Psychology, Social Philosophy
Education should prepare the human being for ongoing change and for the eventual crisis that might arise as a result of the transition. I believe the aim of education should be to build in each student strong theoretical foundations, to help future teachers to be educated rather than trained, to be capable of understanding the […]
A Reflection on Aesthetic Thinking
- May 11, 2021
- Aesthetics, Art, Education, Educational Philosophy, Essay, Ethics, Humanities, Psychology, Social Philosophy
We do not want for art to remain a forbidden garden for a fortunate few, because we know that the absence of art in our lives dims our creative and cognitive abilities, and silences the voice of our souls. Both, sciences and arts, are creative dimensions for human development, change and innovation. As professionals of […]
From Terminal Degrees In Higher Education To Lifelong Learning
- April 1, 2014
- Essay, Higher Education, Learning, Lifelong Learning, Social Philosophy, University, University Policy
The most relevant and controversial issue facing the university is one of its «raisons d’être»: formation, the teaching-learning process. The English word ‘formation’ – among other meanings – indicates ‘the act or process of forming’ or ‘the shaping or developing of something’. The word ‘formative’ means ‘having influence in forming or developing’. Similarly, I use the term […]