{"id":51119,"date":"2020-02-18T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=51119"},"modified":"2020-02-18T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T23:36:10","slug":"in-defense-of-the-master-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/in-defense-of-the-master-class\/","title":{"rendered":"In defense of the master class"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The debate on university education is more alive than ever, and it is insisted by active and passive an idea that,\u00a0roughly<\/em>\u00a0, we can enunciate as follows: our students live in a reality that demands\u00a0competencies, both transversal or generic as specific<\/a>\u00a0, depending on the scope of knowledge.\u00a0Conclusion:\u00a0university pedagogy must adapt to the current situation that arises<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

So far, all normal.\u00a0The current pedagogy is not badly focused.\u00a0Although there are certainly crazy situations, there are many others that have allowed us to move along the indicated path.\u00a0What is difficult to understand is the criticism of the master classes.\u00a0That kind of class has fallen out of favor and seems to have become the scapegoat for all our ills.<\/p>\n

That censorship is worrisome: if we extinguish the master classes of our universities, we will lose, precisely,\u00a0a very important competition<\/a>\u00a0without which it is difficult to understand what is that of university education.\u00a0We may have made two mistakes that are worth treating separately: that of deception and that of appreciation.<\/p>\n

Teachers who really are not teachers<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Let’s go with the first one.\u00a0The type of master classes that is most criticized is that in which teachers with monotonous voice are dedicated to reading a manual or a\u00a0power point in<\/em>\u00a0front of the students and these, for their part, and in the best case, do not do more Than listen and take notes.\u00a0These teachers are sleeping in flesh and blood.\u00a0Of course, university education does not go with these teachers.<\/p>\n

Well, those who criticize the master classes thinking in situations like this, or in very similar variants, should not fall into deception: that is not master class.\u00a0They are rather a waste of time for everyone and, why not say it, also torture.<\/p>\n

Certainly, the structure of the master classes, the good ones, the real ones, is not very different from that of the situations just mentioned.\u00a0Maybe that’s why they get confused with each other.\u00a0However, the “scam classes” have nothing to do with the master classes.\u00a0The differences are colossal.<\/p>\n

Minutes we don’t want to end<\/strong><\/h4>\n

And what are the master classes really?\u00a0Those of us who have been lucky enough to attend some of those classes of teachers (hence the “master”) can explain it.\u00a0Those classes are those in which teachers appear who get two hours to look like five wonderful minutes that nobody wants to end, those that one does not want to miss in any way, those that remain embedded in mind and soul.\u00a0From them you can remember even the smallest details.<\/p>\n

It could even be said that they are the ones that make one forget the mobile phone for a while.\u00a0Yes, and all that while listening to someone who has taken the floor, someone who questions and is questioned, someone who does not need much more than a conventional blackboard, handwritten sheets or five screenshots without much artifice.<\/p>\n

Praise to the transmission<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In short, the master classes are those that lead teachers who\u00a0praise the transmission<\/a>\u00a0by word, perhaps one of the most extraordinary human accomplishments that one can imagine.<\/p>\n

In the master classes, we said above, extraordinary competition is forged, and it is hard to believe how we have stopped appreciating it as it really deserves.\u00a0We refer to the\u00a0desire to know<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0In the master classes we are presented with\u00a0people excited to meet<\/a>\u00a0, individuals who love what they understand and are passionate about what they do not know or understand.<\/p>\n

And of course, that desire has so much power that these teachers usually get the listener to begin to fall in love with them, begin to get excited about the search for knowledge, truths, beauty and goodness.\u00a0And is not that one of the main\u00a0missions of university education<\/a>\u00a0? Do not we ask the university to train professionals and citizens who want to know for the simple fact of knowing and without waiting for any pre-change in return? Do not we want doctors , biologists, lawyers, engineers and nurses who wonder every day why things are the way they are and why they could not be otherwise?<\/p>\n

The desire to know<\/strong><\/h4>\n

There will be those who think that this desire to know can be found in other kinds of classes.\u00a0Maybe yes, but reality shows that maybe not.\u00a0As an example, there are already companies that do\u00a0Final Degree and Master’s Projects<\/a>\u00a0and, year after year, they see how their \u201cuniversity clients\u201d increase, not only demonstrating their picaresque competence, but a null desire to know anything.<\/p>\n

The master classes can live with other types of classes, of course, in the current university education there is room for almost everything.\u00a0The mistake would be to do without them, to leave the desire to know without the habitat in which it is most naturally grown.\u00a0Without teacher classes, of course, we will continue to have universities, but we should ask ourselves if they really would be such a thing or something called.<\/p>\n

Author Bios: <\/strong>Francisco Esteban Bara isFilosof\u00eda de la Educaci\u00f3n Superior and J. Oriol Escard\u00edbul Ferr\u00e0 is Investigador en Econom\u00eda de la Educaci\u00f3n both at the Universitat de Barcelona<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The debate on university education is more alive than ever, and it is insisted by active and passive an idea that,\u00a0roughly\u00a0, we can enunciate as follows: our students live in a reality that demands\u00a0competencies, both transversal or generic as specific\u00a0, depending on the scope of knowledge.\u00a0Conclusion:\u00a0university pedagogy must adapt to the current situation that arises\u00a0. 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