Posts Tagged ‘Political’
The Future of Universities
When we consider the future of universities are not aware of the many problems currently being generated within the main core of conflict management university.
The world’s best universities are also, or rather have been throughout history, major centers of revolt and social developments of all kinds to their respective countries, and in many cases the main sources of all kinds of insurgencies.
These facts must not modify the attempts of some centers to continue to be the central change argument, but in the midst of the crisis we see how the paper has declined steadily as such from the main players universities, a much more technocratic and political nonsense or social.
This complaint, which is very large and serious, has been in different media and circles, especially the old cohertes of students that universities have seen their machines dispense into college degrees, no other reason than this to try to inject some vitality in its sacrosanct institutions.
Still, universities are still a main center of thought, and generate many different realities into society, being in part, reasons and support for these movements, which in times of crisis, are even more positive and necessary. Read the rest of this entry »
University, Commitment and Change
The national university must address more seriously the responsibility the challenges currently facing the country is required to realize that the country needs qualified professionals able to provide transformation step towards the resolution of serious problems currently present in political, educational, economic, cultural, social. It requires a critical analysis, scientific natural and social reality and give way to new knowledge.
The university must contribute directly and indirectly that of step changes the country is demanding, especially with the performance of a government that is causing transformations that the country had ever faced, especially when the Bolivarian Revolution is ready to get to the last consequences for achieving their goals of a social situation in politics and economy of Venezuela, ideology with which the country was not identified
Take into account that the university is sometimes the only center of higher learning and the only place it can be science. Where are the talents required to cooperate with the changes needed to move the country forward. Read the rest of this entry »
The Media and School
The fact that we are witnessing a phenomenon of society dominated by or from the media, whose most visible manifestation is a continuous evolution and renovation of the messages, confronts us with a kind of reflection that must necessarily be multifaceted. We are moving from the era of mechanized reproduction of cybernetic systems. Based on the ability to manipulate images and sounds that provide techniques such as scanning, computer graphics, holography, and so on., We are witnessing not only a technological but specific changes they produce effects that a clear impact on our cultural perceptions and experiential.
Innovation in school
The players often develop a unique educational sensitivity in relation to changes in the sociological reality, technological and political. This sensitivity or reaction conditions the way to capture such phenomena in classrooms. The real educational innovation has to do with ethics that teachers bring into play to resolve the moral dilemmas posed by their profession.
These new approaches necessarily affect the search for new roles to be played by the audiovisual media in teaching. Its possible contribution to innovation lies not in better information, but encourage new teaching strategies. It is necessary to establish its non-integration into the curriculum development process is, from a cultural point of view, a serious break with reality existing outside the classroom. It is not possible to analyze this phenomenon solely as a technical problem or structural. Its significance goes beyond the fact of having or not with media in the school and its corresponding material passing through. We are talking about the media, outside the classroom, continuously transmit social behavior patterns, attitudes, values, habits, priorities informative, but also narrative structures, ways of organizing information or symbols with a universal vocation. Therefore contribute significantly to shape the way we learn to understand the world in which we live. Read the rest of this entry »