Teaching at UNAM from the perspective of the University’s Presidents

Abstract

Have you ever wondered what is the work that the teachers of our University have had and are entrusted with? To answer this question, in this article, firstly, we review briefly the teaching function of the universities in the 21st century: the conception and the elements that it should have; secondly, we discuss the teaching task of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and finally, through the speeches of its founder and some of its college presidents, we examine the ideas that they have had in regard to the teaching and the work that they assign or recognize in the unamitas teachers, in a particular time and space. But why is it pertinent to recover the chancellor’s perspectives? Because they are the ones who, based on the multiple expressions of the university community, determine the actions that the University will carry out during their administration, in this case, in the matter of teaching, according to institutional and contextual conditions.

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