The execution of a seminar exercises students in personal and team study, familiarizes them with means of research and reflection, and exercises them in the philosophical method. The seminar is fundamentally a practice. It is generally established that a seminar

It must last at least two hours and have at least fifty participants.

The seminar is an active learning group, since the participants do not receive the information already prepared, as is conventionally done, but rather they search for it, they investigate it by their own means in an environment of reciprocal collaboration. It is a form of teaching and research at the same time. It clearly differs from the master class, in which the activity focuses on teaching-learning. In the seminary, the student remains a "disciple", but begins to be a teacher himself.

Permanent change implies fundamental adaptations in the educational system, at each level.[2]​ Huber (2012) understands "learning" as an active process of constructing one's own knowledge with the support of teachers, who do not present the teaching material, but rather advise their students where and how they can find what they want and need to learn.[3]​ Huber and Carnap (2012) define learning as an active, self-regulated, social, constructive and situated process. Individual knowledge is, at least in part, a personal construction and the context of learning must offer real opportunities to experience what is to be acquired. They also present a summarized tool to measure the quality of learning in terms of the criteria:.

The activity criterion:

Learning is encouraged when students can:.

The self-regulation criterion:

Self-regulating their own activities requires, as necessary conditions, that students know how to:

The dialogic interaction criterion:

Social exchange both between teacher and students, and between colleagues in small teams, is a key element of active learning.

This requires apprentices:

It is important to implement this learning in the classrooms, so students learn not to make things so obvious when trying to explain a phenomenon and to accept unconventional explanations for what is their daily life.

The execution of a seminar exercises students in personal and team study, familiarizes them with means of research and reflection, and exercises them in the philosophical method. The seminar is fundamentally a practice. It is generally established that a seminar

It must last at least two hours and have at least fifty participants.