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This paper, the outcome of a Seminar in Language, Discourse and Social Practices which took place at the Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales "Alfonso Vélez Pliego" belonging to Benemérita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla in 2013, presents a perspective from which, the language class could be used as a space for integration and understanding among individuals from different cultures and who interact in a society. The context of the present paper is the Mexican Society and the ideals of equality and inclusion that the Mexican Constitution established for all Mexican citizens. Language teachers, by representing a different language and a different culture, can be models of social responsibility if they enhance the building of a culture of peace in class, connecting the individuals of different social groups, considering and finding their differences and similarities in the framework of the language classroom. This scenery of language teaching, either a national or a foreign one, can be used as the place where languages can live together and individuals can find and rehearse an intercultural harmony that can be taken to real scenarios in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Students have different types of experiences that motivate or demotivate them while they are in the classroom. Teachers often do not know this kind of experiences which can affect school performance. In this paper, we show some of the good and bad experiences of a student when he is in a class. We present some results that help us to reflect on our teaching practice, our teaching methods and our interaction with students when we are in the classroom. This research was conducted using the qualitative research and focus group as technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teachers who currently use the traditional method teacher-centered learning, are having various difficulties with the new generations of students. New learning methods are required to allow students to focus more positive attitudes towards their learning. In this paper, we show how the evaluation and activities based on Active Learning and Gamification, can be an alternative to generate a more positive attitude of students and create a more friendly environment in the classroom. This research was conducted using the qualitative research and ethnographic method as technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mexico's southern border is the entry point for different migratory flows, mainly from Central America, these flows have taken place under socioeconomic contexts and conditions which demand the constant livelihood strategies pursuit from people. This paper is focused on the agricultural laborers from Guatemalan origin, within coffee plantation farms at the Soconusco, Chiapas. The main objective is arguing how the lack of access -or restricted access- to education and the precarious inclusion to work and migration, have positioned youth population of migrant laborers, from Guatemalan origin, into social processes of social exclusion and vulnerability. It is concluded that conditions generated from these processes, preclude the generation of different work expectations, the access to a higher quality of life and the social mobility in a men and woman development crucial stage. The exposed information comes from quantitative and qualitative research methods. A nonrandom survey was applied to 129 families; 20 semi-structured interviews for children and adolescents within farms and 25 to actors involved in the recognition and performance of the human rights of migrant children in the southern Mexican border area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gender mainstreaming suggests institutional reorganization and/or "mainstreaming" of gender at the university. Betting on institutionalization as part of a government policy that requires institutional commitment and the responsibility of all university powers by the advancement of equality between women and men. For certain approaches in the feminist movement, it represents the handling of a struggle in the very long term tension that cannot be bounded exclusively to the enunciation of instances nominal or degraded resource allocation without achieving larger structural changes and prone to genuine equality (Palomar, 2009; Pérez, 2010; Alonso, 2010). Therefore, in this paper seeks to explain the extent to which the proposal or mainstreaming should not own the feminist struggle. The reflection is located in the plane of the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala (UATX), for it challenges facing the institutionalization of gender are presented, based on the following questions: Does the University have a need to mainstream a gender perspective? And, if so, what elements allow this initiative? And, what elements constrain it? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is, in a first part, describing some social and economic phenomena that are present in the school through the students to reflect possible scenarios after peace from conflict and violence to school so common occur within educational institutions. In a second part, we propose a comprehensive peace in the approaches to intercultural education as a nonviolent alternative that allows building a peaceful school life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to tell the experience of the BA in ethno education and community development of the Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Colombia, with indigenous communities "Embera Chamí" in the departments of Caldas and Risaralda, here in Colombia. We begin with a sociohistorical and conceptual tour with the indigenous education emergence in order to contextualize to the readers which scope we are going to work in. the second part is a tour of the institutional context-sciences for the education faculty at Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira and the creation of the BA in ethno education and community development. For finishing telling the intercultural education process from the community education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]