The theoretical and practical foundation of Academic Education

The two decades of the XXIst century proves again that both the main factors that generated the crisis in modern society, and those that can solve the great challenges imposed not only by solving the situations specific to crisis management, but also by the creation of the conditions necessary to achieve human progress and civilization, have their roots in education, in general, and in higher education, in particular. Furthermore, in a knowledge-based society, the imperatives of academic education require new transformations, reconsiderations and re-conceptualizations. In this sense, in order to achieve a performing academic education, the university instruction finds its most significant sources in the scientific research, including in that done by teachers and students, aspects that will be dealt with in the current paper.