Ramon Cladellas, lecturer of the Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology, has published a book entitled ¿Aprendemos o cronometramos? Tiempo de aprendizaje en el aula. The book, edited by OmniaScience, invites readers to deeply reflect on the use of time in the educational field, and proposes looking beyond the clock and asking ourselves whether the educational system respects the real rhythms of human learning.
With everyday examples, scientific references and a critical perspective, this book becomes an essential tool for those who want to rethink education from a more human perspective, more conscious and more respectful of real learning processes. Lecturer Ramon Cladellas, director of the Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology at the UAB, with more than three decades of teaching and research experience, invites us to reflect on how time, this invisible but omnipresent resource, conditions the way we teach, learn and assess.
Throughout its pages, the reader will find a deep exploration of time in its multiple dimensions: biological, psychological, social, cultural and educational. From the chronobiology of students to lesson planning, the rationalisation of schedules and the culture of immediacy, the author raises uncomfortable but necessary questions. Are we teaching when the brain is ready to learn? Are we confusing presence with productivity? Are we assessing understanding or simply measuring speed? Are we teaching so that students can learn or simply so that they are kept busy?
The book criticises that in many cases the education system in Spain prioritises the appearance of activity over the effectiveness of learning. This criticism focuses on the institutional tendency to value more the compliance with schedules, the execution of visible tasks, and the accumulation of superficial evidence of work, such as forms, presentations and attendance records, than the real development of knowledge and deep understanding by students.
Reference article:
Ramon Cladellas i Pros, ¿Aprendemos o cronometramos? Tiempo de aprendizaje en el aula, OmniaScience. 2026
