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2014-06-04

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García Serrano, S. E. (2014). Rethinking education in the modern human formation. Revista De Investigaciones UNAD, 13(2), 149-168. https://doi.org/10.22490/25391887.1153
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Rethinking education in the modern human formation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/25391887.1153
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Saúl Ernesto García Serrano Doctorando en Curriculum, Profesorado, Instituciones educativas. Universidad de Granada. Master en Bioética; Master en Ciencias del Matrimonio y la Familia Istituto Giovanni Paolo II Roma. Investigador-Docente Departamento Bienestar Universidad Santo Tomas de Aquino-Bucaramanga.

Education in university life should have the space and time to acquire wisdom and humanize work, the sciences, professions, and culture. This is the paradigm of the universities, from the media age.

If this task is not accomplished, the educators and the instructors can fall into the trap of being "education monsters" but without virtue, without the ability to contemplate and have a clear sense of life.

Modern higher education must advocate for a balanced education; the cultivation of work skills that come from each discipline of science, and life skills, those that are related to the study of humanities.

The study of the humanities in the context of modernity reaches
beyond the influence of common thought, the spread of ideologies and the tendencies for convergence, so we need to rethink their challenges: How can humanities education contribute to creating convergent thinking that mankind is one while maintaining its identity of diversity? Is it possible to rescue the excluded ideas in order to pass from the kingdom of doctrine to the kingdom of immutable ideas? Is it possible to talk to the world of university youth of a united human culture? What should be the role of intellectual academics today regarding the contribution of educated people, citizens, and professionals?