Educational quality as integral formation and meaning social in Colombian education

Abstract

The analysis of educational quality as an integral formation and social sense in Colombian education constitutes the central axis of this contribution. Education in our Latin American countries must not only train doctors, researchers, scientists, technicians who allow us to escape from underdevelopment, but also must allow our students to explore sports, artistic, relational intelligence that allows living in peace and harmony, living in fraternity, freedom, equality, and equity with a social sense, which is why it begins with a theoretical analysis closely linked to the concept of quality—assuming the naturalist, with hermeneutic, to arrive at a notion of quality understood as a search for excellence in the unity of knowledge and the development of our students' various qualities and potentials, excellence in the human and personal. Concluding that to promote quality, it is necessary to take into account the institutional project, the permanent qualification of teachers, the participation of the entire educational community in academic improvement plans, and ongoing monitoring and evaluation of educational processes.

Keywords: Quality; Educational Quality; Integral Formation; Social Sense; Excellence.