Cultura, desarrollo y universidad.

Authors

  • Álvaro Rojas Universidad de Talca

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31619/caledu.n20.349

Abstract

Is it necessary to promote the development of individual cultural features to create a university? A community dedicated to delivering the best of its abilities and having its work transcend inevitably needs to supply effective answers to issues of a substantive rationality that will contribute to provide guidance and meaning to the type of university desired. It is precisely in the search for the ideal university where the meaning of the role played by culture in professional training becomes particularly clear, as does the link it generates with society.

This ideal should contribute -among other aspects- to promoting a highlevel debate regarding national and international issues, to maintaining the characteristic features of national identity and to protecting the environment and improving the living standards of our fellow citizens.

To this end, the process of education should therefore take place, essentially, in a context in which there should be sufficient room for human development and spiritual development, to enable professionals to carry out their tasks in an increasingly complex, global setting. These are the elements strongly provided by an institutional culture that aims to equip individuals with principles and values-

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Published

2004-05-24