La crisis de las ciencias humanas en la actualidad

Abstract

El siguiente proyecto, centrado en analizar la crisis que sufre el sistema educativo mundial y el grado en que el estudio de las humanidades está siendo abandonado –en todos los niveles de la escolaridad y en todos los países del mundo- en beneficio de aprendizajes más directamente vinculados con las actividades económicas. En este proyecto se intentará mostrar, por medio de diferentes autores, que cuando se promueven las habilidades técnicas por encima del estudio de las humanidades se dota a los estudiantes de herramientas útiles para el desarrollo económico pero se los priva de las habilidades necesarias para el ejercicio del pensamiento crítico.

The following essay is born after four years of study in university, where philosophy has played a very determintating role. Humanities play a central role in the history of democracy. But many parents today feel ashamed of their children to study art or literature. Although the philosophy and literature have changed the world, it is much more likely that a father or mother worry that their children know nothing of business they receive inadequate training in humanities. To the extent that the budget allocated to the humanities is cut , a serious erosion of the qualities essential to democratic life occurs. The great educators and statesmen understood the importance of these disciplines at the time to teach boys and girls to apply critical thinking required to act independently and to develop a strong understanding in the power of authority and blind traditions. Also, people who study art and literature learn to imagine the situation of other human beings, this ability is essential to a thriving democracy and involves cultivating our "deep eyes ". The arts and humanities contribute to the development of girls and young children in the form of game, but also to the training of university students. The child and the student must see the world through different perspectives of vulnerability, growing wealth of imagination. Only then you can conceive of others as equals. This is what needs democracy and global citizenship.