PROFILE: JOSÉ FELIPE PARDO PARDO (Q.E.P.D.)

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Publicado en Capital Letter No. 2
Octubre de 2002

Some of us, the ones who had the opportunity to be his students, could realize the absence of our teacher Felipe. One of the most remarkable aspects about him as a teacher was his compromise in terms of research and teaching. In other words, he was one of the excellent teacher-researchers the UN has had.

He was always characterized by his delight on research that could not be apart from teaching. He believed that a teacher must be a researcher because thinking, reflect ing and producing knowledge in research make easier the interaction and help students to learn and to think seriously in research. In addition, he thought that if you are not teaching, research loses its sense; so the classroom was the place in which he could socialize his ideas, in which feedback came to his research not only because of the debates in the classroom but also because it was the moment in which he listened to himself and reflected on it.

Some of his works on Language Research deal with 'lingüistica general', 'sintaxis Española', and 'comprensión y producción de textos argumentativos' from which a seminar was born, the seminar of 'Comprensión y producción de textos' which was one of his vehement desires for our Philology and Languages Studies, it was so because he was so worried about students' lack of reading.
Besides, he was always looking for students and teachers' academic com promise: he was a very demanding teacher-researcher, who insisted in the necessity of reading, arguing and working harder in the academia. 

So, ev ery effort he made in research was not enough for him... He was always looking for excellence in every little task he started. What is said about Felipe Pardo is quoted by those who were near him. However, all students who knew him and all those who did not can realize that being a member of UN, being a teacher-researcher like him are some of the treasures we have to reach the excellence in our personal, academic and professional life.

Thanks to Julia Baquero and Sergio Pardo for their collaboration.

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