The Department of Learning and Developmentinvestigates and nurtures the pedagogical training of future teachers, both initial and continuous, from kindergarten to high school, with knowledge of educational and evolutionary psychology, educational neuroscience, educational guidance and inclusive education.
“Our challenge is to generate opportunities so that the research, teaching and connection with the environment that we carry out favors the learning and development of children and young people in different contexts, considering their diversity, and throughout the educational process.”
María Inés Susperreguy
Director of the Department of Learning and Development
The Department of Learning and Development seeks that future teachers have a comprehensive vision of the educational process based on research evidence, from the perspectives of the life cycle, school coexistence and educational psychology, emphasizing the generation and maintenance of environments conducive to learning.
In addition, we participates in the training of students of Master y PhD in education. Our research addresses topics such as family and classroom interaction factors that influence literacy, early math, and science literacy. Likewise, the promotion of executive functions, applied neuroscience, well-being of teachers, teacher learning and learning management practices. The department's work is disseminated in high-impact scientific journals, congresses of national and international scientific societies.
The department participates in continuing education courses through the UC Center for Educational Transformation, CENTER, and offers training for public interest organizations such as the Undersecretary of Early Childhood Education, JUNJI, Futuro UC School Library, among others, in order to improve the educational system in our country.
In addition, members of the department collaborate in other existing centers at UC, such as the Down Syndrome Center, PENTA UC, Center for Studies of Religion, as well as the Millennium Nucleus Center for Initial Mathematics.
We have academics and researchers committed to the training of future teachers based on knowledge of educational and developmental psychology, educational neuroscience, educational guidance and inclusive education.
Academics who teach what they research, with doctorates obtained from the best universities in the world.
We have teachers who stand out in the training of future educators.
Teachers and researchers committed to improving educational justice.
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The event brought together leaders from different Faculties and Schools of Education, who discussed the global challenges in teacher training and formulated new strategies to connect their training with the future challenges of societies.
The meeting is part of the international project Global Youth Climate Pact, initiated in the run-up to COP 21, and seeks to give prominence to the concerns and proposals that young people have about climate change.
The meeting was part of UC Education's commemorative activities for the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état.
