WHAT DOES "PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS" OF A QUALITY EDUCATIONAL MODEL MEAN?

Abstract

In the present article, developed as a critical essay with a historical-philosophical documentary methodology, the philosophical foundations on which a quality educational model should be based are explored, which involves the human being in its totality, that is, with its biopsychosocial and spiritual structure. In effect, education depends substantially on the vision of human nature, that it had, and on the aims of education pursued. Education requires a purpose (telos) centered on a desired profile of man or woman, an ideal of life or a project of society, for which it is required to possess an adequate knowledge of the human being, which represents an "hypercomplex" being (Morin), and a clear clarity on the principles that should guide such education. In addition to the principles and goals, the educational proposals must also take into account the criteria, premises, values, concepts and contexts, which will serve as a philosophical support to the specific curricular and pedagogical practice.