Abstract

CORTIJO RUIZ, Gemma; RIQUELME SOTO, Verónica  and  GALVIS DOMENECH, María José. Higher Education as a Platform for Human Development. Rev. latinoam. estud. educ. [online]. 2023, vol.53, n.2, pp.367-383.  Epub Oct 02, 2023. ISSN 2448-878X.  https://doi.org/10.48102/rlee.2023.53.2.548.

This article addresses a philosophical and pedagogical reflection on the current goals of higher education and the problems that this stage has to promote the human development of students. Nowadays, educational research focuses on the advance of strategies that promote learning by competencies, giving second place to a theoretical reflection on the model of society that is promoted. Thus, based on arguments from an exhaustive bibliographical review and thanks to a work of hermeneutic analysis, it examines the current educational panorama. It emphasizes the need for a renewed education following the Sustainable Development Goals (UNESCO) and with the Capabilities Approach of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum. Finally, after the theoretical foundation and the reflective task, the conclusion of the importance of redirecting the meaning of education is reached. Creating education are two aspects that are policies directed from an integrative approach based on the development of competencies and capabilities, two aspects that are on the scaffold of holistic learning.

Keywords : higher education; human development; competency-based learning; capability approach; educational purposes.