Aprendizaje cooperativo para la formación universitaria en alfabetización en salud

Resumen

Th is Declaration on ethics and integrity in university teaching is the second of three on integrity in academic activity presented by the University of Barcelona's Bioethics and Law Observatory.Th e purpose of these documents is to analyse the main ethical issues in the spheres of research, teaching and administration in higher education, and to make recommendations and proposals for future action.Th e fi rst declaration was written in collaboration with the Unesco Chair of the Catholic University of Porto and the Unesco Chair in Bioethics of the University of Barcelona (UB), whose headquarters is the UB's Bioethics and Law Observatory, and was entitled Declaration on research integrity in responsible research and innovation.In it we defi ned integrity, from an etymological and conceptual perspective linked to the idea of the 'intact whole' and addressing its moral dimension, 'as loyalty to an axiological and normative system adopted by the individual' .Th us, integrity is also understood as a principle that implies obligatory action and imposes respect for and protection of the dignity of every individual.Th is is the meaning captured in Unesco's Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.Th e Observatory's declaration, published in October 2016, provides guidelines for researchers, professionals and other agents in research and innovation systems, integrating the particularities of a Latin geographic sphere with its diff erent cultural perspectives (it can be consulted at: www.publicacions.ub.edu/refs/observatoriBioEticaDret/documents/08489.pdf.).In the present declaration we analyse the problems currently besetting teaching and learning in higher education in the current context of societies immersed in a process of economic, political and social conjunction, from which the university does not remain apart, as its operation is of vital impor-tance to economic growth and social optimization.Th e paradigmatic changes that we are witnessing make it necessary to revise, consolidate and/or reform the tasks of the university professor, as university education responds to new educational circumstances that require new forms of learning, teaching and evaluation.Th e objectives of this document are the following: i) concretize what integrity in university teaching means, its fundamental content and implications; ii) infl uence decisionmakers in higher education systems, guiding possible changes and normative approaches; iii) have an impact in the media and on public opinion to increase the quality of debate and encourage the free and informed decision-making of the citizenry in higher education policy.