Education as training: Reflections on the educational commitment of the university.

Abstract

The concentration of the duty of the University in the scientific-technical formation and the professional formation, led to a reduction of its educational function in the real meaning of the term, as a facilitator of processes of personal construction.

That way the university teacher became just a science or technology teacher and stop being an educator in the way that function is understood in the other levels of the process (Primary school, secondary school); in the other hand the university student also understood in a limited way the nature and the meaning of the university, his role in it and what he could and must find in it.

It is necessary to re-discover the educational function of the university, the present text reflects about the education as the process trough which the human being constructs himself and humanizes himself and also as an irreplaceable duty of the university. This way the concept of “Formation” is proposed as nucleus of the educational process, supported on a clear anthropological vision.

This is the perspective that the UCPR has assumed since its creation and the perspective that it reflects about permanently to accomplish his mission. The article picks up some fundamental elements of that conception of its duty and the way in it’s done in the practice.