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11 SES 04 B, Factors Impacting on the Quality of Education: Higher Education Students
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Contribution
Everytime is more common to place the cientific research in the context of the globalization characteristic of th societies of today, inasmuch as since being sensible is not possible to ignore the enormous challenges and demands that are required to solve complex social problems, with vertiginous changes that lead to roads full of uncertainty, where the disciplines and their explanations are insufficient by themselves, thus resulting approximations multi, inter and transdisciplinary that providing a more holistic and comprehensive vision for addressing objects of study today, is no longer possible to conceive of a single discipline. (UNESCO, 2010; Valenzuela, 2005; Morín, 2005; Uusen, 2011 ).
For this investigation as in some other places around the world you are betting on an interdisciplinary approach, based on complex thinking reference, which posits that research should be directed towards a reform of thought, based on overcoming the reductionist understanding, and move toward a mindset that "comes at a time of linking and distinguish but without disengaging "and accept the challenge of uncertainty (Payne, 1999).
The context in which this research is developed Higher Education, whose importance, social relevance and agent sociocultural and economic change, as mentioned by the Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior (ANUIES 1998), has to undertake the most radical transformation and renewal that has ever been ahead since they have to face daunting challenges.
The universities aim to train competent professionals to enter the labor market with features that define today, so that the IES should work to provide both teachers and students propitious environment for intellectual, personal, social, ethical and moral, always putting attention to areas that need support to achieve their goal, giving as a professional result can survive with certainty in the workplace upon graduation from an educational institution quality.
In other words, the goal is not only to learn the contents of a subject, but rather acquire a set of skills that can be useful to them throughout their lives, which means in practice that the person passing through university classrooms know continue learning throughout their professional life taking as a model the skills taught in the university and the strategies needed to know how to acquire new learning throughout your life. (Garrido, 2006).
However there are many elements that may hinder the development of these competencies and skills in the educational actors (Cortez, Valenzuela and Guillen, 2014), meaning that the quality of education in any level, is a multidimensional concept in interactions complex among its actors, conditions, situations and contexts, and each element has an important role in improving the overall quality.
Here the role of teachers and directors pedagogical leadership is crucial to boost development in the formation of undergraduate and future professional in social sciences.
Total Quality Model for Educational Institutions (Gento, 2002) in which this research is based, integrated components and predictors identifiers which include leadership as one of the main elements in the educational organization.
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References
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