Reflections on education in values at the Metropolitan University of Ecuador

Abstract

In the educational field, the approach to values ​​exhibits significant attention due to the complexities that are currently manifested and the challenges that values ​​education imposes on university teachers. For this reason, a theoretical-conceptual analysis is carried out about values, their different meanings and typologies, axiology and the education offered; with the objective of bringing professors, researchers, students and other members of the university community of the Metropolitan University of Ecuador closer to these topics as a contribution to their gradual operationalization in university management processes. As a result, it is concluded that it is possible to promote education in values through the Teaching Career Program aimed at increasing the academic and scientific level of teachers and contributing to the training of professionals equipped with knowledge, skills and values to strengthen the awareness of their social and civic responsibilities; committed to the evaluation, interpretation and transformation of the educational, social, cultural, political and economic reality of the country.