On September 16, Professor Joaquín Gairín delivered the keynote lecture preceding the National Day of the Humanist Educator Teacher, a celebration of all education professionals trained in faculties of humanities and in accordance with the College of Humanities.
The conference was attended by more than 400 people and followed online by more than 2,000 education professionals. The main topics addressed were:
- Good professionals and educational institutions are committed to continuous improvement, which includes clarifying the goals of the institutional project and implementing systematic evaluation processes.
- The improvement process requires an appropriate combination of curriculum development, organizational development, professional development and community development processes. It also requires a commitment to sustaining improvements through the corresponding innovation processes.
- Innovation, understood as the process of consolidating and institutionalizing improvements, enables organizational development that transforms both the organization and development of human resources and their internal operating structures and relationships with the surrounding environment.
- Professional and organizational improvement is not spontaneous and requires professionals and management teams to act as agents of improvement, using the necessary cultural strategies. They should also take into account the management of processes and collective knowledge involved in new approaches.
The subsequent discussion addressed issues related to competency-based curricular models versus objective-based models, the purpose of quality manuals, the commitment of humanist professionals, and overcoming the limitations of library resources and other resources that are always present.
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