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.

Lecturers from CETYS University, Mexicali Campus

Lecturers from CETYS University, Ensenada Campus

Lecturers from CETYS University, Tijuana Campus

Seminar with PhD Students from CETYS University

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.

Last month of June (21st to 23rd), Dr. Buxarrais intervened in the CIPE18 in Logroño presenting the paper “Families approach towards their children homework: an exploratory study“, authored jointly with Francisco Esteban (UB), Teodor Mellen (ESADE) & Guillem Pérez (UB).

Abstract:

“Una de las tareas familiares que mayor atención reclama, y que mayor protagonismo adquiere en las diferentes dinámicas familiares, es la que se refiere a la ayuda de padres a los hijos en sus tareas escolares: los deberes. Dicha ayuda puede adoptar diferentes formas y/o estructuras, adquirir diversos sentidos y, por lo tanto, presentar distintas incidencias en la educación familiar. El artículo que se presenta trata de dichas formas, sentidos y su incidencia educativa en el ámbito familiar, concretamente, sobre la repartición, el compartir y la conciliación de dicha tarea. Con el objetivo de desvelar qué formas predominan en la actuación por parte de las familias en torno a las tareas escolares de sus hijos e hijas, se han entrevistado a 471 personas. Asimismo, sacamos a la luz algunos de los resultados obtenidos de este estudio nacional sobre la conciliación familiar y concluimos con las ideas extraídas de lo expuesto, dejando en evidencia la necesidad de proponer intervenciones motoras de un cambio”.