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Through the first pedagogical decree signed by the mayor of Cali, Maurice Armitage, the words doctor or doctor of the actions of the administration of the capital of Valle del Cauca are eliminated. According to the burgomaster, these expressions denote hierarchy and exclusion.
Likewise, he said recently that "peace is generated by creating equality, the day we address each other without marks of differences let's understand each other better". (Read: Colombians by adoption can access scholarships for postgraduate studies)
With the particular disposition the words doctor, doctor, man and woman, also the titles that denote some type of hierarchy will be eliminated of the official communications of the municipal entity. From now on, all people will be called by name, at least in one of the oldest cities on the continent.
Armitage added that the treatment of public servants should be done with respect, improving coexistence, "we are going to set an example in Colombia, that we treat with equality those who come to request a service to a window, be it boss or whoever, We are all equal and must serve with the same commitment and effectiveness that we all deserve. "
We have Name is the strategy of equality that from the Citizen Culture Advisory will be implemented in the municipal administration, which seeks to promote the closeness between public servants and citizens, to fragment with language barriers that distance or establish inequality by ranges or charges.
For Carolina Campo, Citizen Culture Consultant of Cali, the language establishes a common context between two or more people and the way to do it generates closeness or distance. "The use of the proper name implies a recognition of the identity of the other as an equal in terms of human beings." (Read: University Autonomy can not limit measures to safeguard education)
It is worth saying that the Royal Spanish Academy establishes the following meanings for the expression doctor / ra:
1. Person who has received the highest academic university degree.
2. Particular title given by the Catholic Church to some saints in view of the special value of the doctrine of their writings.
3. Doctor, even if he does not have the academic degree of doctor.
4. Doctor's wife.
5. Doctor's wife.
6. Woman who emblazoned of wise and understood.
The doctorate in legal studies
Although the pedagogical provision does not refer exclusively to lawyers, in Colombia it is a special treatment that is given to legal professionals.
As you may remember, the professor of the Eafit University, Maximiliano Aramburo, in an opinion column for LEGAL SCOPE, asked himself: what is the use of a doctor of law, of the "real"? Does the PhD make better professionals? Are doctors-doctors better lawyers?
For this professor, many generations of jurists were trained, and continue to be formed, by teachers without a doctorate and that the doctrine with which the vast majority of the country's jurists study was written by non-doctors. (Read: Doctors)
He reflected that legal education in the hands of doctors is really a very recent phenomenon.
Concluding that perhaps there is the central issue, rather than thinking of education as an ascending line of which the doctorate is at the highest level (specialization-master-doctorate), one should think of the doctorate as a simply "different" level or as a different line in professional training.
"If it is about training researchers, the doctorate, then, is a starting point rather than a point of arrival: a sort of empowerment, of tools to investigate and produce new knowledge," he added.