The Aesthetic Dimension of Education and Learning

October 14, 2024
Aesthetics, Creativity, Education, Ethics, Higher Education, Humanities, Philosophy, Psychology, Sciences

Aesthetic education stimulates the development of fantasy or imagination, which is the basis of all artistic or scientific creativity. It also fosters the development of an overall view and the anticipation of an outcome, the use of logic, and the various forms of human communication. Science and art, as dimensions of creative thought, are not […]

February 2, 2024
Education, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Innovation, Lifelong Learning, Philosophy, University

The future of universities is closely linked to their capacity to change and innovate and their internal coexistence. To remain in the same place, you must keep moving; otherwise, you will get left behind. However, higher education has shifted many times to and from positions based on individuals who learn and advance to corporate structures that […]

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 […]

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, […]

August 4, 2022
Anthropology, Essay, Philosophy, Philosopy of Science, Research Methodology, Sciences, Technology, Technology Transfer

Can we transfer science from one country to another or from one culture to another culture? Is a scientific fact different in the United States and China? Who owns science? Are we confusing science with technology? Science does not come into existence by spontaneous generation. Scientific knowledge is not an only inheritance from the past […]

March 23, 2022
Ciencia, Ensayo, Humanidades, Interdisciplina, Philosophy, Sostenibilidad, Tecnologia

Uno de los pioneros de la computación, Konrad Zuse, dijo una vez que “el peligro de que los ordenadores se vuelvan semejantes al ser humano no es tan grande como el peligro de que el ser humano se convierta en un ordenador.” (Hersfelder Zeitung, 12 de Septiembre de 2005). El temor a la persona máquina, […]

October 10, 2017
Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theory, Learning, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Philosophy

All affective variables or domains must be stimulated from the earliest pre-school age. Otherwise it is a very difficult, almost impossible, task for high school and the university. However, at any age, the world of feeling is always open to exploration and individual growth. If this has not been achieved at the previous levels of […]