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The Faculty of Education is an academic community that places emphasis on individuals and their values. Inspired by the principles and teachings of the Catholic Church, it seeks to contribute to the following goals:
• The development of educational knowledge and the search for answers to a diversity of educational problems in a national and international perspective and context.
• The on-going training of professionals in education, at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels so that they may be prepared to participate in a creative, autonomous, critical, and decisive way in the educational system, with the necessary competencies to innovate, conduct, and produce knowledge. At the same time, it prepares graduate students to develop and lead research projects and innovations that may contribute to the growth and enrichment of educational knowledge.
• Contribution to the national educational debate with a sense of autonomy, service, solidarity, and equity.
Within this context, the Faculty of Education welcomes Chilean as well as international students, at the undergraduate (training in preschool, elementary, and secondary education) and graduate levels (Master’s and Ph.D.)
All the undergraduate programs offered by the Faculty are currently accredited by the National Commission for Undergraduate Programs Accreditation (CNAP). This accreditation involved the evaluation and updating of the courses offered and teaching processes.
The Faculty’s graduate programs are accredited by the National Commission for Graduate Programs Accreditation (CONAP), and it offers the only doctoral program with this certification available in Chile.
Through its extension programs, the Faculty of Education aims at the improvement of the national educational system through on-going training of in-service teachers and through consulting services for institutional development, as well as participation in cooperative projects with the Chilean Ministry of Education and exchange programs with Latin American and European universities.
THE MAIN RESEARCH AREAS ARE:
• Language development, academic skills, and learning difficulties
• Educational policy and management in education
• Curriculum building
• Learning processes and development of teachers and students
• Organizational and process evaluation of academic performance
• Didactics and building of school knowledge
• Information and communication technology
• Educational orientations
• Early childhood education
The Faculty is inserted in the educational context through publications that generate permanent channels of knowledge and communication that expand its influence in the educational domain. At the same time, they allow the educational community to become familiar with the results of educational practices and research, consulting services, and other activities that the Faculty of Education performs in the national and international context.
ACADEMIC STAFF:
The academic staff includes a total of 65 full-time and part-time professors, 97% of whom have formal graduate training.
The Faculty publishes two different journals, with a national and international scope:
1. Revista Pensamiento Educativo.An international publication for Latin American scholars, aimed at top level researchers, thinkers and university professors in different educational areas.
2. Boletín de Investigación Educacional. A nationwide publication intended to present research papers and information.
In addition, faculty members contribute papers to national and international journals.
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Faculty of Education