Unpublished production includes the reflections of six renowned researchers of the work of the Nobel Prize winner in Literature, expressed during the recent National Seminar on the pedagogical work of the writer, organized by the Gabriel González Videla Municipal Corporation, financed by the Regional Government and sponsored by the University of La Serena.

One of the least studied aspects in the life and work of the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, consisting of her experience and pedagogical legacy in the Chilean educational system during the first half of the XNUMXth century, contains the unpublished book titled “The Pedagogical Making by Gabriela Mistral.”

The publication is an initiative of the Gabriel González Videla Municipal Corporation, of La Serena, which is financed by the Regional Government of Coquimbo, through the Culture Fund, and sponsored by the University of La Serena.

In a solemn ceremony to present the book, held in the town hall building of La Serena, and attended by Mayor Roberto Jacob Jure, the Rector(s) of the ULS, Dr. Jorge Catalán Ahumada, communal and regional authorities and special guests , the work that, from the National Seminar “Gabriela Mistral and her Pedagogical Legacy”, carried out at the ULS on April 11 of this year, was highlighted, resulted in the edition of this book that collects the reflections of six renowned specialists and researchers of the life and work of the remembered poetess.

These are the Mistralian scholars, Dusan Martinovic Andrade, Rodrigo Iribarren Avilés, Pedro Pablo Zegers, Thomas Harris Espinosa, Jaime Quiroga Ruiz, Rolando Manzano Concha and Jacqueline Galleguillos Macuada, who, from their own perspective, rescue in this book those successful and innovative in the administration and exercise of teaching and that even today, serve as a guide and orientation for all those who carry out educational tasks.

During the ceremony, the director of the Education Department of the Gabriel González Videla Municipal Corporation, Patricio Bacho Chávez, noted that “our institution is interested in disseminating the pedagogical legacy of Gabriela Mistral, given the educational nature of the commune of La Serena, which must be based on the rescue of the specific historical elements that it already has, one of them is the Normal School, a series of educational establishments from the time of the Serena plan, which have a very important architectural heritage, and which are points of reference for all the inhabitants of the city.”

Meanwhile, the Rector(s), Dr. Jorge Catalán, highlighted that “for our university, which for 25 years has been working to enhance the life and work of our Nobel Prize winner, it is a true honor to have been part of the initiative, from which this important publication about Gabriela Mistral arises. We are convinced that it will be very useful for students, teachers and all those who wish to know its pedagogical, guiding and enduring principles. At the same time, it will serve to revalue their contribution to the visionary and current educational work, in aspects as relevant as the expectations placed on the school."

During the ceremony, copies of the work were delivered to the authorities present, as well as to the public, who also enjoyed the musical talent of the Pedro Aguirre Cerda School Symphony Orchestra.