Models of education in the university: An evolutionary study

Abstract

University teaching models are many and varied, some do not survive more than five years, others are interspersed with other simpler and present us unimaginable and unraveling hodgepodge, only by those historians who see how the story actually. In this study we stick to those formed during more than a decade and gave guidelines for strengthening universities. We focus on four distinct models that have been used by mankind during its history: i) the Bologna model, ii) the model of Paris, iii) the model of Napoleon and iv) the model of Wilhelm von Humboldt or University of Berlin. The aim of this paper is to analyze the models of teaching that have been submitted to trasvés time in college, analysis by evolutionary mechanisms: variation, selection and retention (VSR), proposed by Charles Darwin and worked analogies by different sociologists. This research enabled the identification and definition of variables that are constantly present throughout the development of the university, and are subject to evolutionary analysis.