On the essential identity dimensions of university professors on the contemporaneous technologic educational context

Abstract

There are becoming more frequent and numerous the voices that are calling for a change in the university institutions. These voices are sustained by various factors derived from postmodern thought, the use of information and communications technology and the transformation of the university teaching model. Certainly, it could not be otherwise. The new reality requires a new university, or if you prefer, the university, usually conceived as classical, does not fit the new circumstances. All this has important consequences for the professor, who has been forced to diversify their work colonizing new functions that were previously unknown and that goes beyond traditional teaching and research. However, this transformation and diversification can be more than that, and contribute to the loss and thinning of its essential functions, making it urgent to review these issues in light of the new challenges. In this paper we analyse some of those functions, specifically those relating to the transmission of knowledge, art teacher of the rhetoric, the research-teaching and community service binomial.

Keywords

• Docencia Universitaria
• Tecnología
• Educación Superior
• Investigación
• Teoría de la Educación