Editorial
From its origins, education constitutes a means of “preparing man for life”,
as well as to fully train him for the society in which he is going to develop.
However, in a context characterized by consumerism, immediacy, superficiality,
pragmatism, instability, utilitarianism and uncertainty, is it possible to
faithfully honor the original ideals that inspired the founding of schools,
that is, still Is the formative ideal of caring, respectful, fraternal,
collaborating, empathetic and welcoming people valid?
In any case, how to achieve this ideal in the current
context described by Bauman as "liquid modernity"; Can education from
its role of value and instrument respond to that unstable, changing society,
where everything is "liquid and gelatinous, confused, relative and
fragmented"?
The stage of life, the context of the world has
changed. Students' needs are different and they need to be educated in
different ways. There are at least two challenges ahead: to respond to these
changes and to find ways of unity. Because in the words of Melucci (1996)
"While we contemplate accelerated changes, we find ourselves constantly
divided and stressed between desire and fear, between anticipation and
uncertainty." Societies in their considerable progress in science and
technology have neglected to place in the center of social life the ideals for
which schools arose in the world, that of integrally forming man. Thus, the
human species has mastered the distance between the earth and the moon, has
reached the depths of the ocean, but has also built walls between one and the
other, remaining locked in a bubble of individualism and loneliness. A fragment
of the book Eliot's Choir of the Rock, perhaps constitutes the description of
these times, "all our knowledge brings us closer to our ignorance, all our
ignorance brings us closer to death, but the proximity of death does not bring
us closer to God ”.
Without renouncing this difficult and complicated
context, rather assuming it from our position as men of faith, we decline the
arms of pessimism, conformism and apathy to raise our certainties of hope
towards the future; and, precisely with that faith, we submerge the present
that we want to transform.
In any case, we consider that there are many ways of
social development, one of them is to contribute with reliable and freely
accessible information. Along these lines, the nineteenth number of the EDUCA
UMCH Magazine presents twelve articles.
The first explains what the charism and mission of the
Marcelino Champagnat University consist of; its author explains that the slogan
"Super petram edifice" calls us to build
our personal and professional life on the solidity of truth, goodness and
beauty, the three great references of life.
The second analyzes reading difficulties in children
and aimed to validate an early detection test for reading difficulties in a
sample of four-year-old Chilean children.
The third deals with private higher education in
Mexico and the game dynamics of its policies, as repeated characteristics in
quality regimes, which are currently based on prestige and academic success,
shaping higher education policies. in Latin America, Mexico and the particular
case of the state of Jalisco.
The fourth article critically describes inequality and
educational exclusion in the context of the pandemic, from the experiences of
young people from a rural telesecundaria.
The fifth article describes the potentialities of
Gérard Genette's triadic method and the analysis of the novel “Tomorrow I will
return”, by Marcos Yauri Montero.
The sixth article offers important data on educational
trajectories as an analytical category, from the field of Sociology of
Education.
The seventh article, "Fabric and text: actuality
of a network of relationships", addresses the complex relationships
between text and fabric, which have clearly gone beyond etymological allusion,
to open up a whole field of reflection from the educational and pedagogical
field.
The eighth article, "Between embroidery and
writing, the elaboration of the textual," reflects on the "Embroidery
for Peace" movement, created as a response to the context of violence that
erupted in Mexico during the six-year term of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.
The ninth article, from two cases in Mexico and
Colombia, analyzes the novelties of contemporary artistic production around the
Covid-19 pandemic. The first part addresses the conceptual notions of text and
artistic text from semiotics and hermeneutics, as well as two historical
backgrounds of artistic production on pandemics in the world. In the second
part, an approach is made to the novelties of artistic texts based on two
examples in Mexico and Colombia. The article points out the research challenges
around these texts and some possible reading keys.
The tenth article describes the interest in the
effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on school communities. Starting from this
problem, documentary research was carried out supported by the content analysis
technique, with the aim of identifying what type of expressions make the class
diary possible and what is its relevance in the context of emerging remote
education.
The eleventh article compares, through exploration,
some of the bar graph exercises present in mathematics textbooks at the primary
level in Mexico. It begins with an approach to the debate on their definition, usefulness and impact that these have, to later situate and
question their contents in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the
purpose of inquiring if the exercises with bar graphs are pertinent and
sufficient, or not, to interpret the information on the current health
situation.
The twelfth article revolves around the review of 4
texts on mental health care, produced in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
pandemic by different agencies and agencies in Mexico and the world and through
Of them, we reflect on the educational potential of
these texts and the impact they would have in educational contexts such as
Latin America.
The thirteenth article, from the environmental
economics approach, examines the concept of sustainable development and
emphasizes the misuse of resources and the generation of waste that is
difficult to control, which characterizes the current situation of economic
growth in Peru.
The fourteenth article presents an analysis of the
theoretical-conceptual and methodological bases of the techno-pedagogical
design, considering its omnipresence in the context of the non-face-to-face,
remote and virtual educational modality in conditions of the global pandemic
caused by COVID-19, in exceptional conditions and prospects for sustainability.
The authors are convinced of the fruitfulness and urgent applicability of
techno-pedagogical design in the current educational scenario, marked by
virtuality with the transformative support of available digital tools.
Finally, the fifteenth article is a tribute to the
legacy of Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator and world leader in the field of
liberating Education, with proposals in the context of an emphasis on critical,
inclusive thinking, with action reflection, the use of the question and
dialogue essential for the development of autonomy, democracy and citizenship.
With enthusiasm and hope, we invite each of our
readers to enjoy these articles, analyze them and take advantage of them for
their professional and personal lives.
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Universidad Marcelino Champagnat, Perú
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Revista EDUCA-UMCH