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Legality and legitimacy of compulsory attendance to theoretical classes and evidence portfolios in public higher education institutions in Ecuador

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2021.60394

Abstract

The degree of legitimacy is analyzed and contrasted with the legality of compulsory attendance at theoretical classes and portfolios of evidence in public institutions of higher education in Ecuador. For this, the historical antecedents of the subject, national and international legislation and doctrines, and surveys of teachers from universities in Ecuador were analyzed. We conclude that compulsory attendance at theoretical classes has questionable overtones of legality since by acquiring a look of coercion, extortion, and intimidation, these regulations are opposed to higher-order laws and to the reformist principles themselves. Likewise, they lack legitimacy since they violate the foundational epistemological principles of the 1918 Reform in the case of compulsory attendance to theoretical classes and in the case of evidence portfolios to the reformist principles of academic freedom and academic freedom. Additionally, both compulsory attendance and evidence portfolios violate or contravene the principles of democracy, equity, inclusion, right to work and quality of teaching, among others established in the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador and the Organic Law of Higher Education

Keywords:

Academic freedom, equity, inclusion, right to work, quality of teaching

Author Biographies

Enrique Richard, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar

Enrique Richard holds a PhD in Biology and Ecology from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina) and a BSc in Biology from the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina). He is a professor and postgraduate researcher (MSc, PhD and postdoctoral) at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Universidad Franz Tamayo, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and Escuela Boliviana de Posgrado (Bolivia). 

E-mail: chelonos@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-7807

Denise Ilcen Contreras Zapata, Universidad San Gregorio de Portoviejo

Denise Ilcen Contreras Zapata is a doctoral candidate in Pedagogical Sciences at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Bolivia); Master in Public Health with mention in Health Management and surgeon from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (Bolivia). She is a professor and researcher in the medical career at Universidad San Gregorio de Portoviejo, Ecuador. 

E-mail:

dennycz@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7912-7095

Pedro Maillard Bauer, Universidad San Gregorio de Portoviejo

Pedro Maillard Bauer is a PhD candidate in Higher Education at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Master in Entrepreneurial Development and Innovation at the University of Salamanca (Spain) and holds a law degree from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (Bolivia). He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses related to legal argumentation, legal philosophy and research methodology.

E-mail: maillardbauer.pedro@gmail.com

https://orcid. org/0000-0001-5897-6207.

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Richard, E., Contreras Zapata, D. I., & Maillard Bauer, P. (2021). Legality and legitimacy of compulsory attendance to theoretical classes and evidence portfolios in public higher education institutions in Ecuador. Revista Pedagogía Universitaria Y Didáctica Del Derecho, 8(1), pp. 283–304. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2021.60394
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