Remaking the university in Colombia: To the building of new stages

Abstract

This article raises the need to transform universities in Colombia, understanding that the challenge is to involve universities into the social life, betting on the transformation of the educators and the learners in the construction of a new eduactional setting, which consolidates a more fair and equal society. Responding to an integrative vision the same that allows dealing with problems outside disciplinary barriers and traditional pedagogic schemes, developing competences, knowledge and abilities that impact and propitiate open environments, flexibles of education. The university we must construct echoing Ribeiro is “An utopia in the world of the ideas”, capable of acting as an acceleration of the evolutive agency of society, link or modern expression of the national conscience and that interpretates the reality of the country. A university that shapes the new generations for facing and assuming the future in a responsible way in the face of the compromises of the new society that is developing, gearing their efforts to the investigation, but overall to the humanization of the knowledge.