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Catholic religion teacher training in a plural, glocal and evolutionary scenario: Uniqueness and asset of the Blanquerna pedagogical model from experience and reflection
No full textCatholic religion teacher training in higher education, beyond its formal presence, is a current reality in many countries in the world, which now produces an important amount of initiatives, pedagogical experiences, and research. In the last decades, the phenomenon of the diverse comprehension of the “religion class” and the “Catholic religion class” at schools (very remarkable in Europe and in other places as well) has led to questions over the teachers’ training curriculum. Particularly, these questions arise from the pluralism of educational models, the glocal reality of professional and personal projection, and variations that are apparent within our own models or regions. It is obvious that all of them encompass a new perception of the religious fact, of its value as a universal heritage, its contribution as a factor for personal guidance, and its potential to contribute in the construction of a better world.
In the general framework of the importance, evolution, and diversity of models in university teaching-learning processes, and in particular in the context of the different scenarios for religion teacher initial training in Early Childhood Education and Primary Education, this article presents a description of the uniqueness of the training model for Catholic religion teachers in Blanquerna-Ramon Llull University. There is also a detailed description and reflection about the Blanquerna model, because through its characterization a paradigm emerges that reaches a high potential to give a response to the main questions in our current scenario.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Humanizing from university: An example based on the training itinerary for catholic religion teachers
No full textAlthough the presence of the discourse about the teleology
of education has remarkably decreased, we can never forget that this has
to describe its horizon. At present, the concept “humanization” is usually
included in the final goals, but not always under the same concept.
The statement “the university has to humanize” is explicitly or implicitly
present in many university rationales, but this statement is not enough
if it does not imply a precise description of its meaning and, furthermore,
if we do not have indicators that offer us an approximation to results
achieved. One of the training itineraries in Blanquerna-Ramon Llull
University has allowed us to develop a list of humanization indicators
that, rather than intending to be a standard model, aims at suggesting the
need and appropriateness of building a certain taxonomy linked to the
university rationale and to the work carried out from the areas of knowledge.
Only in this way will we be able to assess the level of achievement
of great goals, in this case humanization. All in all, in this itinerary and
other possible ones, we should highlight the experience of applied ethics
in a training field and in their professional impact that affect the life of
trainees and university undergraduates.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
The anthropological function of dialogue in political reconciliation processes: ethical analysis of Ignacio Ellacuría's thought on the 25th anniversary of his death (1989-2014)
No full textThe idea of a just and lasting peace seems to be unachievable when people are suffering a civil or international war, a violent revolutionary process or a dictatorship, or when they are immersed in a long period of structural injustice. However, during the last decades there have been a number of attempted transitions from violent situations to a just peace through peace-making processes and talks, followed by reconciliation, some of which have been remarkably successful, whilst others are still open (e.g. El Salvador, South Africa, Northern Ireland, the Israel-Palestine conflict, among others). These processes, and their extremely technical complexity, are the object of analysis in the Political Science discipline; yet should they not also be the object of study in other disciplines such as Anthropology and Ethics? Opposing issues such as the possibility of self-aggression yet of radical transformation, the restoration of dialogue, the recognition of others as being equal, and the achievement of a just peace for all are at the centre of being human. In this regard, the work of Ignacio Ellacuría in the context of the civil war in El Salvador (1981-1991) is extremely interesting. This paper presents an analysis of his theoretical contribution structured as follows: the analysis of the concepts of dialogue, social dialogue and political dialogue; the context of violence in which he constructs his ethical and anthropological thought; his defence that social dialogue involves the affirmation of the possibility of moral transformation as an anthropological feature of human beings; the possibility to contest any of the multiple objections to dialogue with reason; his view that the reconciliation process goes from ideological monism to dualism, and from there to a wider and more well-defined pluralism; his conviction that political dialogue makes sense as the fulfilment of social dialogue so it can never replace the latter without losing legitimacy; his definition of the mediator as a key figure, essential to overcoming ideological dichotomy; his objective of achieving a just and lasting peace.
The Jesuit Ignacio Ellacuría was a theologian and a philosopher, a sharp political analyst, and a mediator in the Salvadorean conflict, where 75,000 human lives were lost in 10 years. He applied the “Philosophy of Reality” of his maestro Xavier Zubiri to the postcolonial and revolutionary reality of Central America from the 1960s to the 1980s. He was killed by the army in 1989. The 25th anniversary of his death (1989-2014) is an appropriate moment to undertake an anthropological and ethical analysis of his contribution to political and social peace processes
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A letter from Dr. Jose Ramon Remacha to Dr. Hector P. Garcia.
No full textA letter from Dr. Jose Ramon Remacha, Spanish Minister for Cultural Affairs, to Dr. Hector P. Garcia regarding his recent visit for the inauguration of an annual festival
Raonament intel·lectual i materialitat del text: el cas de l'Ars inventiva veritatis de Ramon Llull
No full textRamon Llull's Ars inventiva veritatis (1290) is conserved in a manuscript closely connected with the author. The peculiar and complex disposition of the text of this codex permits us to study the careful organization of the work, revealing Llull's desire to guide the reader in certain specific directions. This makes evident, once again, the interrelation between the materiality and significance of the text
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Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Barrera are sitting with Dr. Hector P. Garcia at the 2nd annual anniversary of the Junior G.I. Forum in Robstown (photograph)
No full textMr. and Mrs. Ramon Barrera are sitting with Dr. Hector P. Garcia at the 2nd annual anniversary of the Junior G.I. Forum in Robstown. Mr. Barrera participated in organizing the first forum in Corpus Christi area in 194
Coherence as a source of authority in organizations
No full textCoherence is today a source of moral authority. Being coherent frees us from external influences and gives us the capacity to
decide for ourselves, but also places us in a privileged position with regard to others. We will turn our attention now to coherence as a foundation of authority in organisations. And to do that, organisations must be divided into different levels and different dimensions. Coherence will only be possible when the worker is capable of weighing up the distance between the organisation’s specific vision and the operational processes that effectively take place within it. All companies, as a sum of possibilities, respond to the intention of those who govern them insofar as their assets permit it, and their ultimate value resides therein; the possibility of being recognised for their way of being, their corporate ethos
Decision-making in organisations, according to the Aristotelian model
No full textThis article explores the process of decision-making in the light of Aristotelian ethics, in particular his work Nicomachean Ethics. Making decisions is a common task on the managerial agenda. The decisions of a manager affect individuals, the future of the organisation and, of course, they have consequences for the organisation and its surroundings
Knowledge and acknowledgement: the concept of alterity as a tool for social interaction
No full textHuman beings inhabit a symbolic reality that articulates meaning. This is culture understood as a web of meanings that actually builds our identity by providing guidance in the complexity of our environment. It is the complex interplay between identity and alterity, between interiority and exteriority, between familiarity and strangeness. Worldviews set up borders that delimit one’s own world and others’ ground by establishing stereotypes and prejudices. This article presents the results of a research project on prejudices towards the other in students majoring in Education and Psychology with the aim of offering some reflections on what is at stake in social exclusion policies
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