THE REFORM OF SPANISH UNIVERSITIES DURING THE SECOND REPUBLIC: INFLUENCES, OBJECTIVES AND ACTIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-247
Author(s):  
Álvaro Ribagorda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
University Education ◽  
University Campus ◽  
University Reform ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
The University

At the beginning of XX Century there was a great advance in Spanish science and culture, but not in universities. The Second Republic launched a great university reform inspired by other European and American universities. The introduction of research, new studies plans, and the proliferation of university colleges, were some of the keys to the new Spanish university model. The project of the university reform of the Second Republic was actively developed until the summer of 1936, when many faculties, engineering schools, research laboratories, residences and other institutions of the Madrid Campus were already opened. The experience of Madrid was adopted by other Spanish uni-versities. In some cases, pedagogical and research methodologies have been at the forefront internationally. Access to university education and research for women has become ubiquitous. Among the university teachers were leading representatives of the Silver Age of Spanish sci-ence and culture. However, this project of reforming Spanish universi-ties was thwarted by the mutiny of July 18, 1936, one of the goals of which was to stop the modernization process launched by the Second Republic. The mutiny led to a bloody civil war, during which the new-ly opened faculties of the university campus became a zone of fierce fighting, buildings were destroyed, as was the entire university reform project.

scholarly journals Considerations On Recruiting And Retaining University Teachers

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 608-612
Author(s):  
Gabriela Mihăilă-Lică ◽  
Wiegand Helmut Fleischer ◽  
Lucia Palea
Keyword(s):  
University Education ◽  
Doctoral Degrees ◽  
University System ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Best Teachers ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

Abstract The university education in Romania is facing various challenges, from the pressure to reach a balance between teaching activities, research and services for the society, to little funds and a decrease of the interest of teachers with doctoral degrees in the teaching career. The quality of the learning the students receive is dependent on the quality of the teachers the university system employs. The right human resources for the right jobs means, in the long run, not only saving money, but also investing in the future of the Romanian society. The teachers working in the university system of education need to be not only highly skilled, but also extremely motivated. Our paper focuses on some of the things and changes that could be taken into account in order to retain and recruit the best teachers in whose training a lot of investments have already been made.

scholarly journals The thinking styles of the university teacher

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Linoel De Jesús Leal Ordóñez ◽  
Antonio Carlos Do Nascimento Osorio
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
University Education ◽  
Thinking Styles ◽  
Teaching Performance ◽  
Classroom Performance ◽  
Classroom Organization ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Training ◽  
The University

This research is framed in the teachers’ thinking paradigm, oriented to understand the thinking styles of the university teacher from two out of the five cognitive and behavioral expressions in Sternberg’s thinking styles theory: the function inside the classroom and the level of classroom performance. The epistemological approach was the empirical-inductive, framed in the logic positivism tradition, with the case study as methodology. A 24-reactives likert-based scale was applied to 40 teachers of the Education career from Francisco de Miranda University (UNEFM). The results evidenced a mediational thinking style, based on cognitive and constructivism-based teaching procedures, democratic patterns for classroom organization, as well as a permanent process of reflection that informs teachers about what and how to improve while teaching. These results can help to optimize teaching performance, as well as to design pedagogical training processes more focused and based on mediational pedagogies that lead to better learning. KEY WORDS: Thinking styles, university teachers, pedagogy, mediational pedagogies, university education.

scholarly journals Competencias para la empleabilidad: un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales en la Facultad de Educación

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Martínez Clares ◽  
Cristina González Lorente ◽  
Nuria Rebollo Quintela
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
University Education ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Fit Indexes ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
The University

Ante la nueva Revolución 4.0, donde la concepción de la empleabilidad de los estudiantes va más allá de la adquisición de un empleo en particular, este trabajo profundiza en la valoración del universitario acerca del desarrollo de competencias para la empleabilidad que se produce durante su formación universitaria. Además, incluye una validación de constructo de la escala de competencias presentada mediante el AFC y se analizan posibles diferencias en función de las tres universidades españolas analizadas: Universidad de Murcia, Universidad de Granada y Universidade da Coruña. Con este objetivo, participan 830 estudiantes de último curso de Grado de la Facultad de Educación de dichas universidades mediante la cumplimentación del Cuestionario de Orientación e Inserción Laboral (COIL). Para el análisis de los datos se recurre a la estadística descriptiva e inferencial a través del programa estadístico SPSS v23 y al programa AMOS para realizar el Modelo de Ecuaciones Estructurales. Los resultados muestran unos índices de bondad de ajuste óptimos, que garantizan la adecuación del mismo a los datos empíricos; además, se comprueba que existe una tendencia común entre los estudiantes de la facultad de educación, la relativa al desarrollo medio-bajo de competencias para la empleabilidad, con diferencias significativas entre universidades. A partir de estos resultados, es preciso buscar sinergias de comunicación y cooperación entre el contexto productivo, los agentes sociales y la universidad, y hacerlo tanto local como nacionalmente, para encontrar el equilibrio y transferencia que exige el EEES en la nueva Revolución 4.0. In the face of the fourth industrial revolution, where the conception of the employability of students goes beyond the acquisition of a particular job, this research deepens the assessment of the university student about the development of skills for employability that occurs during their university education. In addition, it includes a construct validation of the competencies scale presented by the CFA and possible differences are analyzed according to the three Spanish universities analyzed: University of Murcia, University of Granada and University of A Coruña. With this objective, 830 final year students in the faculty of education of theseuniversities participated by completing the Cuestionario de Orientación e Inserción Laboral (COIL). For the analysis of the data, descriptive and inferential statistics were used through the statistical program SPSS v23 and the AMOS program to carry out the Structural Equation Model. The results show optimal model fit indexes, which guarantee the suitability of this model with the empirical data. In addition, it is verified that there exists a common tendency among all students of the faculty of education relative to the medium-low development of competencies for employability, but with significant competency differences varying amongeach university. Based on these results, it is necessary to seek synergies of communication and cooperation among the job markets, the social agents, and the university, and to do it both locally and nationally in order to find the balance and transfer required by the EHEA in the fourth industrial revolution.

Humboldtian Man vs. Utopian Future: On the Mission of University in the Modern World

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
Liana A. Tukhvatulina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Institution ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
University Education ◽  
Modern World ◽  
University Reform ◽  
Academic World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
The University ◽  
Quantitative Indicators

The article analyzes the significance of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s philosophical ideas about the model of the organization of university education in light of modern challenges. The fundamental ideas of the Humboldt’s project are dis­cussed. The “fictitiousness” of the university as a social institution was the most important advantage of Humboldt's educational strategy. The educational agenda here is not determined by institutional interests, which means that it turns out to be flexible and does not seek to maintain the status quo. At the same time, it is the destruction of “fictitiousness” and the university's establishment as a “real” social institution that becomes one of the most important symptoms of the crisis in the modern academic world. One of the vivid expressions of this crisis is the priority of quantitative indicators of the educational process's effectiveness. The key difference of a modern university is its aspiration for the future. In turn, an appeal to the future turns out to be a pseudo-strategy of the educational process, since the future itself is an unattainable goal. At the same time, Hum­boldt’s project suggested that only in the image of a person does the ultimate goal of education find unlimited development opportunities. The author believes that returning to the “Humboldtian man” can be an important task for university reform in the modern world.

scholarly journals Inclusive methodologies from the teaching perspective for improving performance in university students with disabilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Alejandro Lorenzo-Lledó ◽  
Gonzalo Lorenzo ◽  
Asunción Lledó ◽  
Elena Pérez-Vázquez
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
University Students ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
University Education ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
The University

One of the challenges proposed by the European framework for higher education has been to develop a quality and accessible university education in order to reduce situations of exclusion of disabled students. In this sense, it is essential to reduce the existing gap in the academic performance of this group with respect to other students. The general objective of this study has been to analyze the application of inclusive methodologies in university students with disabilities from a teaching perspective. The adopted methodology was non-experimental quantitative with a sample of 313 teachers from the University of Alicante who have taught students with disabilities and who responded to a questionnaire designed ad hoc of 51 items. The results obtained show that teachers frequently use visual aids and use the same materials both in theory and in practice. Concerning perceptions, teachers consider that students with disabilities should acquire the same skills as the rest of their classmates and it was not difficult for them to teach them. Furthermore, the results showed significant differences in perceptions according to the professional category and the branch of knowledge of the teachers. From the aforementioned, it can be concluded that, although positive changes are perceived in teaching methodologies, it is necessary to continue making progress in improving teaching practice and the quality of education that facilitates the conditions for the academic performance of people with disabilities in Spanish universities.

scholarly journals Education for Sustainable Development in Spanish University Education Degrees

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1467
Author(s):  
Fermín Sánchez-Carracedo ◽  
Francisco Manuel Moreno-Pino ◽  
Daniel Romero-Portillo ◽  
Bárbara Sureda
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Student Perception ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
University Education ◽  
First Year ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Community Processes ◽  
Critical Contextualization ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
The University

This work presents an analysis of student perception of Spanish university education degrees regarding their training in sustainable development. A sample of 942 students was used. The methodology consists of analyzing the results of a survey answered by the first- and fourth-year students from nine education degree courses in four Spanish universities. Comparison of the perception of learning by fourth-year students against those of the first year enables improvements in learning regarding sustainability to be ascertained. The questionnaire consists of 18 questions concerning four sustainability competencies: C1-Critical contextualization of knowledge, C2-Sustainable use of resources, C3-Participation in community processes, and C4-Ethics. Two composite indicators are defined to analyze the absolute learning (achieved on completion of their studies) and the relative learning (achieved with respect to what should have been achieved) declared by the students in each competency, degree and university. The results show that students declare an improvement in all their sustainability competencies, although the results of the final learning are far from those expected: they have learned only 27% of what they should have learned. Moreover, the learning achieved in the four competencies depends on the degree and the university.

scholarly journals Working Together Within The University: An Interdisciplinary Project In Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (13) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Isabel-María Ferrándiz-Vindel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
University Education ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

The evolution of the professional and environmental conditions is forcing the university education to a change in the teaching-learning process. This implies a new definition in the roles and functions of university teachers from whom new ways of educational training should arise. These days, university teachers are called upon to encourage and facilitate their students’ learning. This new role of the teacher should be to help put the University at the level of the requirements and possibilities of this era, and those to come as well. In order to make the innovation and the change real in higher education is essential to start from concepts like “cooperation and collaboration” within the teaching staff, between them and in their departments. According to the new use of the didactic and organizational planning in higher education, this aspect is an aim for the development of the teaching quality in universities. In higher education, there is an increasing need of a formation which not only increases the conceptual knowledge of the professionals but also provides them the instrumental and attitudinal resources required for the professional development of their tasks. The aim of this paper is to show the work which has been done by a group of teachers at the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Humanities during four years in the degree of Educational Psychology. The activities carried out (information stands, sensitization workshops, leaflets with scientific-technical information, among others) facilitate our students’ apprehension of the basic elements of different subject matters and increase their skills of analyzing, contrasting, synthesizing, increasing knowledge, debating, etc. and, in addition, they can confront the need to give an answer –as a professional- to very different situations taken from the real world.

Evaluation of the Academic Setting in Spain 1This study was financed by the University of Oviedo.

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Fernández ◽  
Miguel A. Mateo ◽  
José Muñiz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Academic Setting ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Evaluation Questionnaire ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The University

The conditions are investigated in which Spanish university teachers carry out their teaching and research functions. 655 teachers from the University of Oviedo took part in this study by completing the Academic Setting Evaluation Questionnaire (ASEQ). Of the three dimensions assessed in the ASEQ, Satisfaction received the lowest ratings, Social Climate was rated higher, and Relations with students was rated the highest. These results are similar to those found in two studies carried out in the academic years 1986/87 and 1989/90. Their relevance for higher education is twofold because these data can be used as a complement of those obtained by means of students' opinions, and the crossing of both types of data can facilitate decision making in order to improve the quality of the work (teaching and research) of the university institutions.

STUDENTS’ RESEARCH WORK AS AN IMPROVING FACTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION QUALITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Hladkouski ◽  
Alexander Pinchuk ◽  
Tatsiana Kushner
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
University Education ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
The University

Hindrance to the Integration of e-learning Adoption in Nigerian Universities

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Abasiama G. Akpan ◽  
Chris Eriye Tralagba
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
University Education ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
University System ◽  
Electronic Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Nigerian University ◽  
The University

Electronic learning or online learning is a part of recent education which is dramatically used in universities all over the world. As well as the use and integration of e-learning is at the crucial stage in all developing countries. It is the most significant part of education that enhances and improves the educational system. This paper is to examine the hindrances that influence e-learning in Nigerian university system. In order to have an inclusive research, a case study research was performed in Evangel University, Akaeze, southeast of Nigeria. The paper demonstrates similar hindrances on country side. This research is a blend of questionnaires and interviews, the questionnaires was distributed to lecturers and an interview was conducted with management and information technology unit. Research had shown the use of e-learning in university education which has influenced effectively and efficiently the education system and that the University education in Nigeria is at the crucial stage of e-learning. Hence, some of the hindrances are avoiding unbeaten integration of e-learning. The aim of this research is to unravel the barriers that impede the integration of e-learning in universities in Nigeria. Nevertheless, e-learning has modified the teaching and learning approach but integration is faced with many challenges in Nigerian University.

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