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Heraclitus of Ephesus stated that we can not go into the same river twice. Each time it is a different river because everything flows (panta rei). This absolutization of becoming is dangerous as it is pointing to relativism and, in Read more
Broadly speaking, there are two types of professors: course teachers, who rely on textbooks and whose work is tightly related to helping students assimilate fundamental information and form a specific set of skills, and facilitators, whose primary focus is on Read more
Teaching after the pandemic The Covid-19 pandemic has had a disruptive effect on a global level, and it has transformed the way we work, live, and even the way we interact with each other. The education field was no exception. Read more
Without intellectual curiosity, research is pure opportunism. I do not conceive research without intellectual curiosity. Social phenomena, the same as the natural ones, simply exist. Researchers do not produce them. A researcher does research because they wonder why a phenomenon Read more
When conducting research, a thorough explanation of the employed methodology must be made to be deemed scientific and subsequently accepted for publication in a journal following a process of (blind) peer review (which is anonymous). There are two types of Read more
Shortly: you may receive many rejections, encounter delays, or, worse, get no answers. Working in academia implies an uphill battle to make your research available to the scientific community by publishing your articles in the most relevant journals in your Read more
In The Division of Labor in Society (2008), Emile Durkheim claims that humanity, as it evolved from a primitive society to an industrial one, underwent shifts ranging from a low to a high division of labor, from social solidarity based on resemblance Read more
We observe in universities around the world a general practice to focus professors’ evaluation on the performance of research, despite various critics related to a narrowing of the research interests, increased control of the system by the elite researchers, avoidance Read more
Cognitive scientists discovered that a good discussion should not have more than 5 basic ideas. Thus, when young researchers ask me what are the secrets of a successful research project, in business, in publishing valuable papers, or preparing a Ph.D. Read more
The intrinsic dynamics of interdisciplinarity has gained momentum nowadays given the impetuous call for wider frames of debate and well-integrated solutions to complex issues. Research and researchers are dared to catch up with complexity trends and competing perspectives, to take Read more
