Author Archives: admin

Aristotle University (2019 – 06 – 03-04)

On the 3th and 4th of June, Dr Buxarrais was in Greece as part of the Erasmus+ Project KA2 Strategic Partnership EDIC (Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship) in her role as “critical friend”. She taught there a seminar on “Civic and Moral Education at Schools: Conditions and Strategies” to students of the MA in Multicultural and Intercultural Education at the School of Philosophy and Education. On the 4th, she participated in the “Ottoman walk” in the city of Thessaloniki (a walk around the city visiting the monuments from the times of the Ottomans), along with students and the coordinator of the Master’s course at the Aristotle University, Dr. Anastasia Kesidou.

Congreso AME 2018 en imágenes

Participantes en AME 2018 — Opening ceremony of the conference at the Assembly Hall of the University of Barcelona, with over 400 participants from 48 different countries (08-11-2018).

Mesa inaugural AME 2018 — Opening ceremony at AME 2018. From left to right: Dr Ernest Pons, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Communication and Management at the University of Barcelona; Dr Buxarrais, co-chair of AME 2018 and Mr Jaume Forés i Llasat, Responsable of the Public Spirit and Values Program at the Government of Catalonia.

Acto de entrega de premios — Award Ceremony. From left to right, from to back: Dr Ulisses Araújo, member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Moral Education; Dr Buxarrais, co-chair of this conference; Dr Josep Puig and Dr Miquel Martínez (09 – 11 – 2018).

“Best Poster Award”. From left to right: Dr Kaye Cook, President of the Association for Moral Education; Dr Buxarrais, co-chair of the conference and Annalise Hoopes, the winner of this award.

“Good Work Award” to Research Group in Moral Education (GREM). In the picture, the Executive Board of the group. From left to right: Dr Maria Rosa Buxarrais (PI), Dr Josep Puig, Dr Xus Martín, Dr Miquel Martínez, Dr Jaume Trilla and Dr Montserrat Payà.

“Lisa Kurmerker Award”. From left to right: Dr Fritz Oser; Dr Maria Rosa Buxarrais; the award winner, Dr Sharon Lamb; Dr Ann Higgins d’Alessandro and Dr Kaye Cook.

“Best Dissertation Award”. From left to right: Dr Kaye Cook; Dr Hyemin Han and Dr Maria Rosa Buxarrais.

Dr Buxarrais interviewed in Punt Avui Diary (22nd Nov 2018)

The interview (in Catalan) can be downloaded in pdf here

Visit to CETYS University (Mexico)

As part of the program “Distiguished Professorship PIMSA, which aims at promoting research lines in certain fields and at boosting competitiveness of the institution, CETYS University received Dr. Maria Rosa Buxarrais from the 13th to the 19th of Octuber.

During that week, Dr Buxarrais has given, in all three campuses (Mexicali, Ensenada y Tijuana), a conference conferencia (“management of emtions and feelings in values education: the care approach”) addressed at schools, civil organizations and general audience; another talk “Ethics and solidarity”) addressed at final year students and (“Moral Education from a Female Perspective”) PhD students; and a seminar (“The Pedagogy of Being, the challenge of educating in Humanities”) addressed at lectures of the university in all three campuses.

She was also interviewed by different media. Some examples can be read (in Spanish) here and here.

Profesorado de CETYS Universidad, Campus Mexicali Lecturers from CETYS University, Mexicali Campus

Profesorado de CETYS University, Campus Ensenada Lecturers from CETYS University, Ensenada Campus

Profesorado de CETYS Universidad, Campus Tijuana Lecturers from CETYS University, Tijuana Campus

Seminario con doctorandos de CETYS Universidad Seminar with PhD Students from CETYS University

Keynote at EUCEET 2018

Dr. Buxarrais was invited as a keynote speaker at the 4th International Conference on Civil Engineering Education:Challenges for the Third Millennium, organised by the Escola de Camins (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), and EUCEET (European Civil Engineering Education and Training) Association from the 5th to the 8th of September.

The conference was entitled “Ethical competencies in Higher Education” and the abstract can be read next:

Higher Education encompasses three interconnected dimensions:

A dimension related with the construction and transmission of the scientific, technical, cultural and humanistic knowledge.

A political and social dimension linked to the implication in the society and in the democratic principles development.

An ethical dimension bound together with and activity compromised with the justice, the people’s and communities’ dignity and human rights.

Since Higher Education must train competent professionals who are to analyse their own practises, we will consider the third dimension. Furthermore, they must be able to evaluate their actions, their perceptions, their beliefs and their thoughts, not only as professionals in their field of knowledge but as compromised citizens as well. Thus, the training of the ethical competence is necessary to develop ability of reflection, analysing and the taking of a post. Here we are going to ask ourselves questions related to the teacher practises and the ethical learning in the higher education.