An interesting meeting was held thanks to the joint organization of the Regional Ministerial Secretariat of the Coquimbo Region and the Regional Center for Educational Studies and Development, CREDEULS, of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of La Serena.

The conference “Innovations and interaction in current educational praxis” brought together academics, students and the public who came together in a virtual meeting, around education and the needs of having a shared and at the same time generous perspective, with social cohesion and alignment, for pedagogical improvement.

The first intervention was given by the Regional Ministerial Secretary of Education, Claudio Oyarzún Cabezas, who presented a detailed analysis of the situation in the country and how the institutions face, in the context of a pandemic, the challenges involved in carrying out the training processes. Emphasizing the intense work carried out by the educational teams.

Later, Dr. Paulo Volante, in his conference “Expert teams in collaboration for pedagogical improvement”, presented different examples and strategies to improve the work of work groups, where some fundamental steps are necessary for successful processes. An example of this is the Collaborative Research Cycle in the Context of Virtual Classes 2020 - 21, which details fundamental steps such as shared class planning, peer observation of classes, peer feedback and class refinement, with adaptations.

Meanwhile, Dr. Francisco Leal, an academic from the University of Tarapacá, gave the presentation “Motivation, commitment and well-being. The meaning in school?”, in which he addressed various aspects of the interactions that take place in schools today. , placing special emphasis on the active role that communities have currently assumed regarding the needs generated by the pandemic. “We have experienced a Modification in the way we see ourselves, relate and act, we must value the ability to take educational action in our hands, be protagonists of it, appropriate and project it in a different way, the pandemic has forced us to action. “We are at a turning point where things must be thought differently,” he noted.

CREDEULS digital magazine presentation

On the occasion, the presentation in digital format of the CREDEULS magazine, from the Center for Studies and Development of Education of the University of La Serena (www.credeuls.cl), which seeks, through the tools offered by technology, to reach to a larger number of readers and form a community to share experiences and generate permanent dialogue between the different social actors who address the challenges of education from different areas.

As noted by Dr. María Lourdes Campos in her presentation, CREDEULS was created in 2008, as an initiative of the Department of Education and Psychology of the University. This center was initially financed by the Innovation Fund for Regional Competitiveness (FIC-R) of the Regional Government of Coquimbo.  

Today, along with recognizing the visionary initiative of its founders, Dr. Carlos Calvo, Dr. Silvia López de Maturana, Dr. María Teresa Julia, Mg. Oscar Silva, Dr. Yanola González, Dr. Celso López and María Lourdes Campos, a group of professionals has worked on a process of reactivation of the magazine to propose an active articulation with the community through three lines of work: the school, family triad and community; teaching leadership and professionalization and academic articulation and integration.

“This remote situation opened the possibility of creating a digital magazine to disseminate knowledge and reflect on the educational reality,” said Dr. Campos, who also invited those who wish to make contributions and collaborate to participate in this means of communication and dissemination. .

Articles can be sent throughout the year, the contents are public and open, since it adheres to the Open Access movement and its issues will be published in the months of July and December.

Finally, the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Dr. Cristian Noemi, thanked the organizers for the splendid opportunity provided to increase ties between the ULS and the community of the Coquimbo Region, particularly in the complex social and public health scenario due to the that crosses the country. In his intervention, he referred to two concepts addressed by doctors Volante and Leal and that make sense with the mission of this Faculty of Humanities of the ULS, they are collaboration and well-being.

“The resolution of social conflicts through the medium that enables education through collaborative procedures constitutes therefore one of the great ethical challenges that the humanities must address in times of crisis, in order to contribute to ensuring continuity history of the species, in the form of a more harmonious, balanced and dialogic society”… “If we relativize again the notions of historical time and evolutionary time, we hope that we will be reminded in the future that the postmodernists of the first third of the XNUMXst century who were able to overcome the difficulties of the context, planetary overheating, the presence of lethal microorganisms and social polarization, through the cooperative action of agreeing in groups, with relatively sophisticated procedures such as the one allowed by language through the ability to argue, and taking into consideration the living conditions and habits of the rest of the herd,” said Dr. Noemi.

At the end of the day, he thanked, on behalf of the ULS Faculty of Humanities, all those who participated in the initiative for their collaborative effort.

See the full day at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Vqa1k2QFE

Access CREDEULS Magazine at: www.credeuls.cl

Written by Claudia Farías, Faculty of Humanities