Hacia una nueva noción de la universidad del siglo XXI

Abstract

The university is a social space where the human being finds opportunities to join a world of knowledge, culture, science and technology and allow him the scope of his intellectual, personal, social, emotional and spiritual development. The university campus has been formed as a cornucopia of knowledge that demands a permanent appreciation of its original functions (teaching, research and extension), located as a nucleus of academic actions that revitalize and configure the operational, social and cultural sense of the University through its results and products. However, the twentieth century brought with it innumerable challenges for these institutions, thus requiring their transformation, hence the reconstruction of their scope of action and conjugation, in the light of the collective metamorphosis that surrounds the daily life of their activities must be carried out, under learning in uncertainty, in search of a new ontoepistemology to face the new era. In that diversity and anchoring, the university and its people are submitted to the structural and functional revision of their core processes, to advance towards development spaces that require a constant examination of the praxis conformed by the mentioned university triad, if just, where the purposes, aims and educational activities are reversed, with the fundamental north of guaranteeing a training by competences that give real and pertinent coverage to the social needs, in response to the adaptive complexity of the current world. Thus, the purpose of this essay is the presentation of the most recent ideas of the transformation of the University of the XXI century, wielded by González Casanova (2001), de Sousa Santos (2007), and Tunnermann (2007) and the position of the researcher, to reinvent those spaces based on the personal journey that every human being gives to comprehensively acquire competences.