Educación y Ciudad

The Myth of Change and the Permanent Crisis in Education

2024-09-17T04:00:51-05:00

La teoría y práctica en educación es un campo de estudio que lleva más de un siglo de avance y acumulación de conocimiento, que de manera helicoidal (como un resorte) nos entrega nuevos postulados, paradigmas e ideas para superar las diversas crisis y coyunturas en el mundo de la pedagogía.

Education, a Lighthouse that Illuminates and Sets the Course in Latin America

2024-07-22T17:55:31-05:00

El proceso educativo latinoamericano se está posicionando en calidad, inclusión y justicia social, a pesar de políticas educativas que buscan retroceder en los logros alcanzados en materia de educación pública. Diversos vaivenes políticos siguen afectando las economías y la cultura de las sociedades, por lo que es un desafío para cada Estado reafirmar día a día los principios democráticos y de igualdad de derechos para todos sus habitantes.

Educational Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean: Insights from Critical and Innovative Experiences Promoted by CLACSO

2024-03-19T15:28:30-05:00

The challenges facing Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean have become increasingly diverse and significant in recent decades. Educational conflicts, particularly in Higher Education, have garnered substantial attention in the mobilizations and political debates across various countries in the region, with Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico standing out for the scale and persistence of these issues. Key dimensions of contention include financing, accessibility, quality, governance structures, working conditions for educators, the non-commercialization of education, and the promotion of free education. Students have frequently spearheaded these movements, organizing through collectives, organizations, and movements, sometimes alongside faculty and staff, engaging in street protests, occupying public buildings, and other collective actions.This paper synthesizes qualitative research conducted over the past five years, drawing on interviews, document analysis, press articles, and relevant literature to examine the main challenges, problems, and future perspectives of Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. It focuses particularly on two pivotal initiatives launched by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO): the Latin American University Evaluation System (SILEU) and the Latin American Forum for Scientific Evaluation (FOLEC). These initiatives aim to innovate and address critical issues within the region's higher education landscape, offering new frameworks for evaluation and advancement amidst ongoing challenges.

Parents at the Desk: Neuroeducation at the Service of the Family. A Comparative Study

2024-04-09T09:21:32-05:00

This article exposes the development of a research work from neuroeducation, a perspective from Mora, who supports a proposal based on the academic study of the brain and emotions, with the purpose of addressing the multidimensionality of the family nucleus. The need to analyze the incidence of neuroeducation in family counseling and emotional training processes in parents or caregivers, in the emotional performance of their children, through the tools provided in parenting school by school guidance. Families from the Fernando Mazuera Villegas and Ismael Perdomo District Educational Institutions participated, afternoon shift, eighth grade and located in the city of Bogotá. Through a methodology with a mixed approach, a grounded theory method and an explanatory scope, it is evident that referrals for situations of alleged violence decreased by 15 % in the first institution and 10 % in the second. Furthermore, students and their families express an improvement in the family environment, by reconciling or reaching agreements with their children, through another way of positioning authority, understanding parenting, accompanying growth and linking emotional formation. In conclusion, parent education must have priority within educational institutions to minimize the processes of violence that children and adolescents face.

Community Education and Ethnobotany: Roots of Knowledge from An Environmental Approach

2024-03-12T13:16:20-05:00

Over time, communities have developed their own customs for relating to their natural environment, based on their knowledge and experiences. This knowledge, especially in the human-plant relationship, includes multiple uses, such as medicinal or nutritional uses, which have been built through intergenerational educational processes. However, in contemporary society, this knowledge has experienced a reduction or fragmentation evidenced in the approach and interaction with communities and their natural environment. Therefore, this article aims to recognize the ethnobotanical knowledge of a peasant community from an environmental approach to strengthen the perception of Community Education scenarios. The study is carried out through qualitative research with some quantitative aspects through IV methodological phases: reading of the context, social characterization, design, application and analysis of data collection instruments. During the process, it was established that the recognition of ethnobotanical knowledge constitutes an important part in the construction and formation of the community based on dialogue and exchange of traditional knowledge. Likewise, it strengthens the perception of Community Education providing solid bases to rethink mechanisms of resistance and empowerment of the community by valuing its knowledge as experiential and local training that responds to current challenges. In the quantitative aspects, 191 species of plants were found distributed in 6 ethnobotanical uses: therapeutic, nutritional, ornamental, aesthetic, handicraft and spiritual, allowing to understand the dynamics between the peasant community and plants in a contextual framework in these community education scenarios.