Cecilia Primogerio, coordinator of the Education team at the Faculty of Business Sciences (FCE) in Buenos Aires, has led the group of FCE professors participating in the Institute of Philosophy's intellectual virtues project since 2023. Together with Camila del Carril, she published an article entitled “Build intellectual virtues in your business students by crossing disciplines” in Times Higher Education magazine.

In the publication, Cecilia and Camila detail how, throughout 2024, a team of 20 teachers from disciplines as diverse as mathematics, economics, management, accounting, and the humanities carried out a teacher development program focused on integrating virtues such as curiosity, open-mindedness, intellectual honesty, perseverance, and equanimity. This interdisciplinary approach allowed them to redesign learning objectives, implement new types of assessment (such as reflective essays, virtue self-assessments, and peer feedback), and modify classroom dynamics to foster reflection, Socratic dialogue, and shared perspective-taking.

The article highlights how 85% of participants reconfigured their courses to explicitly integrate the cultivation of virtues and underscores that this type of teacher training contributes not only to improving teaching but also to revitalizing the meaning of academic work. In this sense, the publication showcases the work carried out by the FCE team and demonstrates the impact of the Philosophy Institute's intellectual virtues project on the institution's culture. Universidad Austral.

The full article can be read here.