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In 1892, the first school of the institution was founded in Madrid, Spain, with names such as Numancia and San Estanislao. After going through relevant historical periods such as the Spanish Civil War and the linking of more and more students to the formal education sector, until it was named SEK, after St. Stanislaus of Kostka, after the linking of the current president of the Organization, Mr. Jorge Segovia Bonet, in 1982. From that moment on, it became one of the most important private and secular educational institutions in the world.

The axiological references of the institutional IEP are:

  1. The international context: political integration and human rights.
  2. The current globalizing culture.
  3. New modalities of labor activity.
  4. Leisure time and training.

The Epistemological Structure that sustains the Educational Project, that is to say, the foundations and methods of scientific knowledge are the basis of the teachings in its centers. SEK understands that its function is to educate people, capable of developing their resources to the maximum in order to acquire and assimilate useful knowledge. To develop this task, the SEK Educational Project is based on theoretical foundations of the forms of knowledge that explain both what is taught and why it is taught. The SEK Educational Project is based on pedagogical principles that govern educational practice, methodology and curriculum, coherent with the areas and dimensions of knowledge.

In today’s society, characterized by great changes and immediate access to information, the concept of teaching as the transmission of knowledge and the teacher as the transmitter of information loses its meaning. The scientific and didactic revolution is in full swing and the SEK International Institution aims to be at the forefront. It recognizes that today’s society demands new services from educational institutions and that innovative actions are needed that affect the essential elements of education: teacher, student, curriculum and social context. Therefore, SEK emphasizes the importance of meaningful learning and takes into account its didactic-pedagogical connotations that affect educational practice.

The SEK International Institution has as its mission the “Education of the human being”, through an integral and global action, promoting the multiculturalism and diversity of the plurinational, multiethnic and heteroparlante community that forms it and to which it provides service, through a dynamic of collaborative and participative work that allows to offer maximum levels of quality and demand in all its teaching, research and cultural and social extension actions that reflect the universal perspective of knowledge.

The activities carried out by SEK Centers shall respect the following principles:

  1. Educational action should be based on the understanding of human reality at each moment in history and should of history and will try to bring the learner closer to this understanding constantly. understanding constantly.
  2. Respect for nature, as well as the environmental education of each student, so that he/she maintains a constructive and responsible attitude towards nature, should be a basic line of action in SEK Centers.
  3. SEK will promote social action and commitment. Responsibility and effort effort are essential elements of the educational process.
  4. Individual work is the basis for learning. The educational methodology of the The educational methodology of the Institution recognizes the importance of cooperative learning, with flexible and heterogeneous groups.
  5. In order for the learner to develop the perspective of totality, a regime of interdisciplinarity rather than a of interdisciplinarity rather than linear development of independent disciplines.
  6. The teaching profession will be recognized as an essential factor in the quality of education, and priority will be given to the training and updating of teachers and their professional promotion.
  7. Students’ ability to trust in their own skills and knowledge will be valued, developing the basic values and principles of creativity and initiative.
  8. Our educational system must provide the means that allow the student to carry out the programming of his or her own objectives, not only in the field of learning, but also in broader areas of his or her life.
  9. It will also offer the possibility of contrasting and rectifying such programs according to common interests and the emergence of new circumstances that affect programmed objectives.
  10. It will be necessary for the student to constantly update their knowledge about the languages ​​and techniques of the media and to develop a critical attitude towards them, which will allow them to function in the space and time in which they live. SEK will promote the habit of reflective reading for the development of cognitive abilities and the acquisition of knowledge.
  11. Our educational system will provide the means and actions so that the student develop a great capacity for adaptation, imagination, initiative and creativity,
    decision-making capacity and the emotional balance necessary to fully face aware of the rapid changes and complexity of society. All this taking into account the aptitudes, interests, expectations and personality of the student.
  12. Research, experimentation and innovation will be encouraged.

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