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A moderated discussion board in Spanish on human sciences and higher education.
Can We Achieve Human Development Without Ethical Ends?
Beyond Left and Right: “To base the political division of the world’s future on ideological standpoints of left or right is senseless.” The basis of human progress is not in return to the past, nor is it in the present; …
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 was, in part, a consequence of insufficient scientific research, …
En cualquier examen del futuro, deberíamos preguntarnos antes que nada, no tanto hacia dónde va la educación, sino más bien hacia dónde debería ir. En el fondo debemos pensar en forma dialéctica entre el ser y el deber ser. Veamos …
Robert Arnove: How Great Teachers Make Top Students
The book Talent Abounds: Profiles of Master Teachers and Peak Performers, from Paradigm Publishers written by Robert Arnove, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Indiana University and a leading scholar of comparative and international education, suggests that great teachers who turn out …