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In the context of the constituent process taking place in Chile, this paper studies one of the main constitutional debates that has developed throughout the country's history: the debate over the right to education. We analyse this debate between 1990 and 2016 to explore how elite discourse and citizens' opinions regarding the right to education are related. We first propose a periodization of the discussions of the elite, determined by the irruption of the Chilean student movement in 2006 and 2011, and the gradual constitutionalisation of the debate. We then carry out a discourse analysis of the citizen dialogues, specifically the Encuentros Locales Autoconvocados (ELA), or Self-convened Local Meetings, developed within the framework of the constitutional process that took place in 2016. Finally, by comparing both discourses, we conclude that although there is receptivity to the ideas of the elites in the ELA discourses, they do not constitute a complete reflection of these ideas. This questions the notion that citizen discourses only reaffirm the discourses of the elite without contributing anything new. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of food insecurity on the school performance of Brazilian students. Therefore, the empirical approach used to correct the selection bias was the Propensity Score Matching (PSM), based on the data from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) in 2013. The main results indicate that food insecurity has a statistically significant and positive impact on agegrade distortion (school performance proxy). The effect for any level of food insecurity is approximately 4%, however, it intensifies as the degree of food insecurity increases, being 11% in the case of students classified as having severe food insecurity. This study provides the first empirical evidence for Brazil that food insecurity is associated with the academic performance of Brazilian students, a fact that can compromise the country's social and economic development in the long run. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The construction of knowledge in the social sciences has generated a series of discussions about the method and how it allows for the reliable interpretation, analysis and understanding of the phenomena studied. Didactics, as a social science, has not been alien to such reflection; therefore, it has initiated a search for methods that allow researchers to construct scientific knowledge that accounts for the meanings and significance of the discourses that surround the classroom, the same ones that evidence the teaching and learning processes. This paper presents an analytical study in which narrative is proposed as a method to epistemologically support the knowledge that is built in didactic research, achieved in qualitative research, and also as a means to express the knowledge built. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the paper is to reflect on Environmental Education in Ecuador, whose Constitution of 2008 recognized the Rights of Nature. This work presents the follow-up to the educational practices implemented through the 'TiNi's Methodology,' where students learn from the natural environment in a theoretical-practical way. As a result, the socioenvironmental discourse conceptually based on sustainable development is questioned and an eco-pedagogical alternative focused on the Andean worldview of Sumak Kawsay is proposed, which seeks to restore nature through regenerative development. To conclude, an inter-epistemological dialogue between ancestral wisdom and scientific knowledge is promoted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strengthening the municipalities as a fundamental instance and reducing the main disproportions that exist among them today requires the presence in each territory of qualified personnel to face such challenges. As of the 2016-2017 academic year, important modifications were introduced in the procedure for entering the modalities of courses for meetings and distance education at the university level. This paper analyzes the impact of these changes on the access of municipalities to that level of education. The results show that the transformations introduced favor the entrance, but there are still notable differences between territories. The 15 municipalities with the worst situation in terms of access to higher education in recent years and the effect on them of the changes mentioned are presented. The results obtained show that the greatest differences between territories can be seen in the admission to daytime courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we emphasize the different reflections and the discussions regarding a university extension project in a Middle School within the Political Science and International Relations University. This paper presents the description of a number of "classroom-workshop" experiences during the school year 2013 with 3°, 4° and 5° year students from "San Juan Diego" school, which is situated in a suburb populated mainly by Rosario Qom Community inhabitants. The focus of the paper is the relationship between the educational context and the students' identity process. The tutorials, that took place in order to support the educational process, involved the development of different activities in which the artistic aspect was really important since it triggered several discussions regarding the school, the suburb and the community. These experiences lead us to think about the notion of identity and its complexity. During the presentation of this work, a discussion that questioned the project following the idea of their chances of interference with the changing reality took place in the IV University Extension National Congress, September 2014. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The article analyses and characterizes the ethical principles that underpin publication rules about authorship disputes in the education journals listed in Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Methodology: The article analyses the content of the ethical principles, submission conditions and author and reviewer guidelines required by the journals listed in the JCR subject category "Education and Educational Research". It analyses the presence of the following categories: inclusion and exclusion criteria, author order and maximum number of authors, corresponding author's role, changes to authorship and conflicts of interest between students and their supervisors or mentors. The results are classified according to publisher, geographical region and JCR quartile. Results: A little over half of the journals analysed include authorship-related ethical principles in their publication rules. Most commonly, these principles relate to inclusion criteria, followed by author order and corresponding author's role. Geographical region plays a decisive role in determining how far these principles are applied, while impact factor does not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives The environment of high competitiveness that exists in agro-food markets has significantly increased the pressure on all the agents that operate in them. In the case of cooperatives, possibly due to their small business size, this issue is of particular importance as it encourages these entities to adopt changes that pursue to improve their competitiveness, ensuring their survival. There is a good number of papers that partially analyze the role of different aspects of management on the competitiveness of cooperatives (Juliá et al., 2012; Arcas, 2002; Moyano et al., 2008; among others). In previous work, we have selected a set of six elements of management that are crucial to the competitiveness of agrifood cooperatives, they are known as DIDIFO, which stands for Dimension (size) - Internationalization - Diversification - Innovation - Formation (training) - (market) Orientation (Lajara & Server, 2016). The contribution to a better performance in companies is undoubtable but the degree of relative importance among these elements has not yet been addressed. What is more relevant for a cooperative to increase its competitiveness, to improve its size or to diversify its portfolio? The objective of this work is to establish a hierarchy of aspects in business management that affect the success and competitiveness of agro-food cooperatives. Method This question could only be answered using a qualitative approach. For this work, an expert consultation has been carried out using the Delphi method in order to obtain an order of importance as perceived by the sector. A number of experts were selected and grouped according to their relationship to cooperatives: representative associations, local government, universities and cooperative staff. They were asked to order the factors as well as to include any other aspect they found interesting related to the topic. The questionnaire was sent by e-mail and two rounds of consultation were needed to achieve a degree of consensus and stability. Results 28 valid answers were collected after the second round. In this phase, either consensus or stability was achieved in all the questions. Results permit the formulation of a proposal of hierarchy even if experts could not agree on a unique order. Both market orientation and innovation have been pointed as the most outstanding elements by experts in order to improve the current competitiveness of Spanish agro-food cooperatives. Diversification occupies the second place in the ranking, followed by size, internationalization and training. There is consensus in the positions of market orientation and diversification and also in the rest of the factors, there is a level of stability that shows that answers would not change in following rounds. Conclusions Market orientation and innovation are elements that have been proposed by consensus as the most relevant when it comes to encouraging competitiveness. This result is consistent with the current stream of management in which the need to satisfy not only the customer but the market is high. In addition, in a sector such as agro-food in which commodities abound, it is vital to seek differentiation and one of the most effective ways to achieve this is innovation. The following factors with respect to importance are dimension (size), internationalization and training. Particularly noteworthy is the latter aspect, training, as it highlights one of the problems that traditionally has been attributed to the sector which is the lack of professionalization. We can say that the fact that it has been categorized as the least important factor within the proposed ones denotes in some way that this mentality in the sector still persists. In future research it would be interesting to analyze whether there are significant differences between the different groups of experts who have participated in the study, that is, if managers of cooperatives have opinions that are statistically different from those provided by the researchers or the staff of the Administration. In addition, it could be explored whether two types of factors could be established: a group of cross-cutting elements that enhance other aspects (eg training) and a more specific one, integrated by innovation or internationalization. Contribution This work helps to increase the existing evidence about management in cooperatives. This kind of business can be a way of empowering employees in new founded- companies that are coming up in this revolution post-crisis. But to give them the opportunity of surviving and succeed, we still need to find strategies to update the way they are managed. Results of this paper show that effort has to be placed mainly in market orientation and innovation but keeping in mind that there is still a problem of professionalization in the sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work presents a literature review of research journals in science teaching in Latin America and the Caribbean with the aim of identifying, describing and characterizing the main lines of research. The documentary basis is made up of 15 scientific journals and 490 papers that report work in educational research. From the abstracts of the papers it was possible to identify the problems addressed, which were grouped into five dimensions: learning science, teaching science, the science curriculum, science teachers and students of science teaching. The results show that teaching and learning science is the main problem addressed by most studies conducted in Latin America and the Caribbean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first section of this paper focuses on the importance of negotiation processes related to research and evaluation. This importance is based on five issues: ethics in production processes, knowledge scope, rigorous inquiry, efficiency of development- oriented findings and strategy to maintain contexts in which research and participant learning can take place. The different phases of the negotiation process are also presented: initial, processing and reporting, the last one of special importance. The requirements, types, characteristics and operation processes of the reporting phase are discussed. The second section of this paper provides in the form of an example a specific case of negotiation from a qualitative investigation about immigrant familie's participation at school. Its different phases, demands and virtualities are discussed. The paper finished with some final considerations and references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research supporting this paper addresses the problem of educational communication efficacy using a dual methodology strategy. Over 1.200 questionnaires were given out to professionals in four institutions dedicated to persuasive communication; two traditional --the church and schools-- and two more recently created -- journalism and advertising. Probably they are the four groups with more socialising force in the last centuries; For this paper the educators' responses were specifically analysed to determine their conception of the communication process and the requirements for effective communication, and these were compared with those from the other groups, especially from advertising professionals. Lastly, all the responses were compared to contributions from neuroscience that have been made in recent decades about how the human mind functions, particularly with regards to decision-making, to determine which communication proposals provide a greater guarantee of efficacy. The results indicate the need for educators to break away from a strictly cognitive polarized communication that focuses on transmission. They are more related with guaranteeing the supply than creating a demand, and open up to the communicative potential of emotions, interaction and storytelling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using the New Rurality approach as conceptual framework, this paper analized the participative and deliberative process of developing a Proyecto Educativo Institucional (PEI) (Institutional Educative Plan) in a rural school in Tranapuente, Southern Chile. This research uses a qualitative design to study the relation between the school of Tranapuente and the rural communities where the school is located, describing the products of the process: Mission and vision of the school, main curricular areas (diversity, intercultural, relation school community and participative management of the schools). Finally, this paper analyzes how these products are conditions to rebuild the purpose and meanings of the school with the final purpose of improve curriculum and intercultural learning of the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes two popular libraries in the southwest province of Buenos Aires, Argentina--the Bernardino Rivadavia of Bahía Blanca Library, founded in 1882, and the Domingo F. Sarmiento de Tres Arroyos Library, inaugurated in 1899--and the creation of their respective children's sections in 1925 and 1928. This paper looks at the formation of these children's sections within the context of expanding public education and child readership in the province. By the end of the 1920s, a verifiable process of expansion and diversification of reading groups had unfolded that was both a product of, and, at the same time, an incentive for further library development and its related transformations. These institutions introduced modifications in order to respond to the growing demand and tried to play an active role in the configuration of a new readership, both by regulating behaviors and reading spaces as well as experience and tastes of the users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With a methodological approach to systematizing of experiences, this paper propose an alternative understanding of social cartography as a counterhegemonic instance of knowledge production in the traditional social sciences. Therefore, based on some suspicions evidenced in three pedagogical experiences, the conventional uses of this social and cultural knowledge production methodology are discussed in order to enhance its counterhegemonic applications. As a conclusion, we put into play certain understandings about the possibilities of this emerging type of cartography for the field of education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of the impact that a Scholarship Program in Mexico City has on perceptions that families have of their children's grade averages. The study uses a new database collected for the purpose of evaluating this conditional cash transfer program, which contains information for a random sample of a treatment group and control group. Through linear and ordered probit regression models, it was found that participation in the Scholarship Program increased the perception of high grade averages by 18.1%, and reduced 11.3 and 6.7% the perception of mid and low range grade averages, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of disciplinary research into the assessment processes in early childhood education and decision-making for continuous improvement in the development and learning of infants in the kindergartens of the Junta Nacional de Jadines Infantiles in the Metropolitan Region of Chile during the second semester of 2018. The methodology used was of a qualitative ethnographic type, with a multiple case study design. The findings reveal relevant aspects regarding the validity of the records that support the assessment processes conducted in early childhood education and the factors that shape them. The study concludes with the need to strengthen reflective instances related to evaluative practice in this context to enable better decision-making by educational teams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Protagoras' discourse on the good in the Protagoras (334a3-c6) has not been correctly interpreted. In general, it is assumed that the sophist presents there a sort of relativism about the good, which does not receive any response by Socrates. In this paper I defend a different interpretation, according to which, the philosophical position that Protagoras introduces in the speech is a pluralist position. Moreover, I hold that Socrates does respond to the speech. This response is in Socrates' development of a hedonist thesis, which is subsequently accepted by Protagoras. Indeed, this sort of hedonism is a monism about the good and, therefore, is inconsistent with the previous Protagorean pluralist position. The moral of this exchange is, then, that the sophist does not know what the good is, the goal of education, for he is led to an inconsistent position about it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with how student engineers at a Colombian private university assess their professors. They described their ideas of a "perfect" professor, and identified major challenges to be faced by the academic personnel. The study was conducted by taking into account major variables of assessing professors: performance, commitment, mastery, methodology, evaluation, and interpersonal relationships. For its design, engineering subjects were grouped over the last three years, and a survey was made by the use of a questionnaire. Binary logistic regression was used to predict whether or not professors were of the standard set up and established by the institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is aimed at briefly presenting the results of the piece of research "Theoretical and Methodological Conception of Humane Training of Teachers on the Basis of José Martí's Oeuvre". Dialectical materialism was the approach adopted, and theoretical and empirical methods of research were used in order to collect, process, and present data. The results suggest a body of practical measures to be taken in educational strategies for academic years. These measures are theoretically based on José Martí's conception of education. Their practicability is confirmed in training processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reading in the university in the social sciences area involves working with multiple textual and discursive sources. Many times teachers can expect students to behave as autonomous readers and to know in advance how to read in a specific area. In this sense, this paper addresses teacher's perspectives and expectations about student's reading practices in Psychology at a state-run university. For this, a qualitative study is carried out in which 30 teachers of the first year of the Psychology degree are interviewed. The interviews are analyzed in light of categories that emerge from the theoretical framework and the emerging ones are considered. Results show that the great majority of teacher's perspectives on students reading focus on the difficulties and that a few teacher's perspectives focus on strengths and on self-critical view of teaching practices. In addition, these perspectives are related to the reading practices expected by teachers. Those teachers, who highlight difficulties, declare to encourage monological reading practices and expect students to read in this way. Those who recognize potentialities and difficulties in their students as readers declare possible dialogical practices and hope that students can read together with them. Reading perspectives lead teachers to deploy reading practices that may tend to remedy the difficulties or become spaces of construction of shared meanings on what is read. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the results of the study of the intellectual competences of the Agricultural Mechanical Engineering students of the Autonomous University of Chapingo. The instrument used was the Multiorienta software and was applied to a sample of 244 students in grades 4, 5 and 6. The results show the general averages of the following indicators: perception = 5.5, analysis = 6.8, synthesis = 6.3, abstract reasoning = 5.2, learning = 5.9, memory = 4.1, creativity = 5.0, planning and decision making = 5.2, intellectual speed = 5.1, among others. These results are of great help for the development of the academic tutoring program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, educating the public about health, nutrition, is a priority issue for countries, and so it is referred by organizations such as WHO, PAHO, and FAO, among others. With that in mind, in this paper nutritional and health concepts, like issues with education, the transdisciplinary and salutogenic approaches, are first analyzed, under a social model that has the school as a center of promotion and development. Secondly, are highlight the evolution of the concept of nutrition and its association with food from the biologicalsocial-environmental three-dimensionality that are required; in the framework of sustainable-sustainable approaches linked to quality of life. Without leave the effects of malnutrition as disease inflicted by fetal malnutrition and CNCDs as a potential epigenetic cause. Finally, are boarding diverse perspectives that the food fact assumes in our society, the food culture. Its social learning and how can interweave these scenarios in a true pedagogy of food where the vision of health-food is articulated as our interdisciplinary knowledge and Achieve Food and Nutrition Education as a transversal and integral concept that generates new ways of development, quality of life and wellbeing from childhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of the existing literature on social networks in Ibero-America, with the objective of organizing the main topics covered, highlighting findings, and proposing future research paths. The four thematic areas that stand out are political communication and electronic government; journalism and traditional media; social groups (including adolescents and young people, those marginalized, women, entrepreneurs and influencers, students, and older adults) and areas of use (including commerce, tourism, education, health, professional communication); and political and civic participation. In addition, we review the literature from the perspective of the platforms (Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat) and from the geographical regions and countries that make up Ibero-America, to observe similarities and differences. We conclude with the mention and analysis of the two most outstanding patterns of the studies examined: 1) a tendency to expect from the networks a transformative potential that is not necessarily proven, especially in the case of political communication and journalism; 2) transformative capacity of networks in the areas of tourism, education and health, in which traditional media have not been characterized by having a prominent role. Finally, we propose some paths for future studies, among them the pursuit of comparative works, the incorporation of relational perspectives in the treatment of networks, the addition of mixed, experimental and computational methodologies, and the consideration, from the research design standpoint, of the acceleration of technological change and the need to generate questions and conceptualizations capable of surviving the passage of time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper assesses the impact that higher education funding has had in Medellin with resources from the participatory budget program during the 2007-2015 period. The short-term impact on employment, income, children, marital status and socio-economic mobilization is analyzed. For the above, the certified base of the Sisben 2015 and the base of enrolled in the program are used. The treatment eligibility rule is used, so a sharp discontinuous regression design is estimated. The results indicate that the non-eligible population in the margin is very similar to the eligible. The program reduces the probability of being employed and receiving income, as well as having children for women but increases the chances that low-income people can access the higher education and mobilization socioeconomic level. There is no evidence of any effect on marital status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper approaches the limits of technologies in education, from the discourses extracted f'om the mapping of theses of the Graduate Programs in Education, in the interval of 2012 to 2016. It is a hermeneutic research carried out through the search of keywords, in the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), aiming to understand the contributions and problems evidenced in theses on the subject. The challenges and questionings of technologies come to the scene in education as models to be followed, which weakens the experiences of pedagogical sense in the historical-formative interdependence and unveils the need for a critical-dialectical movement that takes into account the knowledge constructed in the school. The teacher, in this scenario of change, needs to be a provocateur of pedagogical reflection stolen by the successive development of technical idioms, as a starting point for the dialectical reconstruction of technologies in education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investment in childhood is fundamental to healthy child development and positive long-term effects. This paper aims to analyze the impact of early education on child development, measured through: Ages and Stages Questionnaires - Third Edition (ASQ-3). The results are not homogenous for the studied population, and effects are not found when the total sample is considered. A negative and significant effect on gross motor skills was found for children under 40 months. For children over 40 months, the effect of early education on socioindividual tests and problem-solving tests is positive and significant. Early education policies are fundamental to contributing to the improvement child development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A growing body of research confirms the importance of the family-school relationship during the early and elementary childhood education; however, scant research has addressed this topic with regard to high school education. This paper focuses on the concept of family involvement in education and explores its relationship to high school students' outcomes; it assumes that family involvement in education remains central in this stage, adolescence, as students continue to grow up, as well as for its strategic role in promoting school retention in this level of education. This review relies on the Epstein's model, which suggests different levels of family involvement; it also points out family and school practices that promote students' outcomes. Based on this, we analyze some strategies identified in the literature that may be helpful for Mexican high schools in order to improve family involvement, which in turn could contribute to face one of the challenges of this educational level: high school students' retention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social exclusion is a complex, multidimensional process which points to the persistence of a variety of deprivations in key dimensions of life, education among them. Working within this context, this paper studies determinants of exclusion in the educational dimension, specifically from its original degree (access), and seeks to evaluate whether they vary in relation to the socioeconomic conditions of the target population. To do this, logistic regression models were calculated using data from Argentina's Permanent Household Survey (PHS), in addition to information obtained from our own survey, performed in April of 2016 in three vulnerable communities of Bahía Blanca, Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of face-to-face education practices that are taken to virtual mathematics courses with the reasoning of preserving high standards of academic quality. Qualitative research work with a phenomenological approach was carried out using semi-structured observation techniques and in-depth interviews. The population under study included students in the industrial engineering and systems and computing engineering programs under the virtual modality, from a university recognized for its quality and academic tradition, predominantly in the face-to-face modality. The analysis were carried out based on the following categories: interaction with the course contents, student's personal environments, preparation and development of evaluation activities, professor's guidance and collaboration. The findings showed that the interposition of face-to-face education pedagogical and curricular concepts to a virtual education model leads to inconsistencies and contradictions related to criteria and techniques of the evaluation processes, organization of learning activities, methods and forms of study, characteristics of the contents, forms of interaction between students and positions of teachers in their educational roles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the present paper, we intend to reflect on how aspects such as generosity, ecology and silence can have a positive impact on the students within our educational systems. A way to look at the world with care and attention is thus proposed. Through the teaching interventions carried out, the teachers can intervene in the learners as "users" of the world, as social beings, and therefore have an important influence on the future of our planet and our societies. In the end, the teacher, as an active element in the educational contents, can contribute in a conscious way to improve the social health and the wellbeing of the human communities in our age. Therefore, it is essential for the teaching processes to account for aspects which will create better individuals, better social systems and a more balanced ecology for everybody. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper will propose an approach to indigenous higher education in Latin America (ESI) from a review of experiences of six (6) countries in the region: Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Argentina and Colombia. In this sense, its framed within the thematic line: interculturality and education. This research work was proposed to understand each of the experiences of the six Latina American experiences in light of their progress, problems and projections according to the particularity of the context of each country. The methodology used had a qualitative approach that privileged the technique of documentary review. The results show the progress made in terms of government policies and the "own" education initiatives that indigenous communities have had to carry out and/ or implement Indigenous Higher Education projects in each of the countries studied. The main conclusions place the elements that make indigenous higher education in the six (6) countries analyzed between what they area: the conceptions of ESI itself, the authority of social movements in the debate on education and the appearance of thought multicultural and multi-ethnic in most countries and their influence on indigenous higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to highlight the importance of the relationship of knowledge with the environment to place its effects on the educational life of individuals as part of the understanding of thought about the world and ourselves. From this view, the teaching process cannot be conceived above the local realities that produce his own narratives of meaning, which makes education an exploration opportunity around biocultural codes that organize the link between human being and the nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current global context there are educational proposals which have arisen due to transnational phenomena. This is the case of character education, which received a clear boost in the US in the 1990s and soon transcended the US borders. In this paper we propose the need to assess the social, economic and cultural conditions of the specific local framework in order to determine the content of an adequate character education program. We consider this in the case of Paraguay, where the educational indicators, the lifestyle of young people or the great cultural diversity determine any proposal of intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many Nowadays, digital teaching competence transcends the individual training of teachers in ICT. The European framework DigCompEdu, highlights that teachers must train students in the application of digital technologies in a critical and responsible way, in terms of information, communication, content generation, wellbeing and problem solving. Despite the good intentions to systematize a common model of development of digital competence, it is detected that the proposals lack a pedagogical approach that serves as a theoretical framework for them. This paper proposes a development model of the digital teaching competence based on the sociocultural approach through four constructs: Command, Preference, Reintegration and Appropriation. For this study, an ad hoc scale is created to record the digital teaching competence through the development of this in their students and empirical evidences are provided. A survey type design is proposed. The sample consists of 1,881 students of compulsory education in Andalusia (Spain). SPSS is used to analyse data. The average general results for each of the dimensions studied reveal a medium level of development of digital competence. It is concluded that there is still too much to be done in terms of teacher training in ICT, being necessary to provide them strategies for the development of this in their students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most important events in Mexico's educational research is the National Congress of Educational Research where, since 2011, the National Meeting of Graduate Students (ENEPE) has taken place. Following a brief review of the literature on training for educational research and academic congresses, we suggest that analyzing ENEPE will contribute relevant information on training for research. For this reason, we studied the last two publications of the meeting (2015 y 2017), focusing on the process of evaluating papers, the profile of speakers, and the revision of submissions that were not accepted. The results show that the students with the best results are affiliated with a small set of institutions, although "emerging" institutions are also present. In conclusion, attention is drawn to various challenges that ENEPE faces with respect to training educational researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In future society, a great deal will be demanded of people in general, with acquiring knowledge and applying it to different fields being considered to be the major factors influencing development. Nowadays, the new role played by teachers includes adopting different approaches to competence acquisition and assessment, active engagement in managing educational institutions, and collaborative working. Changes to education have been more focused on competence-based education and training in Latin America, especially Chile, which is why this paper is aimed at reflecting on it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper has the purpose of showing what transformations can be deduced for the Informational Behavior of information institutions, entities and professionals starting from the definitions, strategies and plans of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), and the aim of building integrating Knowledge Societies trough information and communication. Starting from a documental analysis about ESD and its antecedents, since the beginning of the century, and also, from fundamental models about the Informational Behavior in general for the mentioned actors, the authors used the deductive descriptive method. The changes in the approaches, scenarios, contents and methods demanded to Education in the mentioned politics, for the identification, comprehension, complete and transdisciplinar solution of social problems are detailed. The roll that UNESCO attributes to information and communication, the changes in the information professional's competences profile in 21th century, and the roll of the information institution and entities in the different education levels are exposed. As a general conclusion, the demanded by EDS Informational Behavior of information institutions, entities and professionals is been called to get integrated with educational communities and its environments in a wholly -cognitive and affective- approach of education of, and by, competences, incorporating the motivation, values and feelings required for the social transformations and the local and community development strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the objectives of sustainable development (OSD) established in September 2015, in an agreement signed by 193 countries at the United Nations General Assembly, from the perspective of Critical Environmental Education. The specific objectives were: to present the concept of Environmental Education in the critical perspective; to know the objectives of sustainable development; to analyze the OSD in the perspective of Critical Environmental Education. The research question listed was: are there possible approaches to think of the achievement of OSD, through an Environmental Education in its critical aspect? In the present work we start from the assumption that Environmental Education in its critical aspect is defined in Brazil from a matrix that sees education as an element of social transformation, inspired by dialogue, in the exercise of citizenship, in the strengthening of subjects, in the overcoming capitalist forms of domination and understanding the world in its complexity. At the end, it is evident that Environmental Education, in its critical, emancipating and transforming aspect of reality, shows itself as a viable path for the pursuit of the sustainable development goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Centered on oral communication in the Academy, the paper sets a dialogue between two voices: on the one hand, the practises and concerns of the students of a workshop on communicational abilities offered in the National University of Cordoba in 2018; and, on the other hand, contributions from language sciences (Barthes, 2003; Todorov, 2008; Van Dijk, 1983) and philosophy (Foucault, 1996; Skliar, 2015). Which are the challenges on oral academic communication for those who teach and learn? How do students learn when teachers give their lessons and how do they take the word in order to say their knowledge? From those starting points and in a flexible essay, the papertext unfolds reflections on philosophical, psychological, and socio-anthropological concepts --social control, power and self-care - as well as representations of technical concepts --conceptual precision, the adjustment to the communication situation, the discipline lexical realm, and the macro-structure --in order to consider some social and didactic implications of oral communication in the university environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the existence of multi-ethnic and pluricultural societies is not new, the perspective of equality and recognition has remained on paper, without permeating citizen attitudes. Migrations and globalization have led to greater international awareness of interculturality, facing challenges at the educational and health care levels, generating regulations in relation to protection and respect for diversity. The emergence and development of the concept of interculturality in education allows us to reflect on its importance and the role it has been given in health and nursing training. It is evident that institutional efforts have been insufficient, as the coloniality of being and knowledge continues to prevail, since Anglo-Saxon and European positions are still assumed that are in tension with the Latin American context. Nursing is still on the way to forging interculturality, it is important to include the subject in the training of professionals, which contributes to the construction of selfcare. The proposal of this article is to approach the notion of interculturality from education and health, to re-think epistemologically another look at the training of professionals in nursing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we work about the sense that the concept of inclusion acquired as a guiding principle of educational policies in the context of progressive governments 2003-2010 in Argentina, Uruguay and Brasil. We describe and analyze some educational policy programs aimed at educational inclusion in those countries based on theoretical contributions and political perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on the place of education for youth and adults and education in contexts of deprivation of liberty in the National Educational Law, in the orientation that this conception gave to the National Ministry of Education policies and in that what enabled for jurisdictions, especially in Córdoba. It results of the doctoral thesis “Adult secondary education in the present. A comparative study between Córdoba (Argentina) and Catalonia (Spain)”and the research Production of meaning and subjectivity in the prison space: access to rights and justice”. Based on the analysis of the regulations and the national and provincial policies that it inspired, it is argued that education as a public good and social right represented a substantial turn in the policies for permanent youth and adult education and in confinement contexts modalities, notwithstanding the insufficient aspects of some actions and the various obstacles to access to education that still persist. It ends with questions about the course of this law within the framework of a socio-political, economic and cultural context very different from the one that favored its emergence and the clues that the current educational policy offers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we briefly introduce three aspects of what might be considered a Latin-American school of political economy of communication. The first aspect is an institutional history that highlights the efforts to be present at universities as well as researcher organizations and other spaces of independent discussions such as journals and observatories. Second aspect, incorporates both European and North-American theoretical and epistemological traditions, which gives a way to a Latin-American re-elaboration. The third aspect, is the making of a particular history. Such history is, nevertheless, non-homogeneous as it takes into account the specificities of Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. Finally, some categories elaborated or re-elaborated within the Latin-American camp, stand out as they contribute for a better dialog with other strands at the world level. As a conclusion remark is that, despite its internal development, the Anglo- American intellectual and academic traditions still prevail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reflects upon the appropriation of the Latin-American theories by the Brazilian scientific production in the area of reception studies. This frame is justified by the importance of the country in the continent's investigation scenario, in both quantitative terms and in the continuous effort of the Brazilian's academic research qualification. The analysis is from a systematic monitoring of the production since da 1990s (Jacks, et al. 2008; 2014; 2017) to trace an overview of 25 years of the field, presenting theoretical-methodological mapped contributions, advances and obstacles. Also discusses the evolution and reconfiguration of what is understood by reception and the main gaps that can serve as an agenda of investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we briefly introduce three aspects of what might be considered a Latin-American school of political economy of communication. The first aspect is an institutional history that highlights the efforts to be present at universities as well as researcher organizations and other spaces of independent discussions such as journals and observatories. Second aspect, incorporates both European and North-American theoretical and epistemological traditions, which gives a way to a Latin-American re-elaboration. The third aspect, is the making of a particular history. Such history is, nevertheless, non-homogeneous as it takes into account the specificities of Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. Finally, some categories elaborated or re-elaborated within the Latin-American camp, stand out as they contribute for a better dialog with other strands at the world level. As a conclusion remark is that, despite its internal development, the Anglo- American intellectual and academic traditions still prevail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work is part of a post PhD research which main purpose was to analyze: what types of relationships are stablished in the process of inclusion of students with disabilities? The objective of this paper was "To characterize the relationships that have been built from the experience of educational inclusion of students with disabilities from the teachers' perspective", approached from the relational aspect in the experience of 41 teachers who have attended students with any disability during their teaching practice. The methodology was qualitative, the tool used was a questionnaire composed by seven open questions, the answers were analyzed, using some elements of coding and categorization proposed by the Grounded Theory. The results are about that relationships can be thought of from three characteristics: relationships whit an interest sustained by a technical sense, relationships based on an interest with a practical sense and relationships sustained with an interest with a transforming sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the representations that elaborate high school students about the intercultural educational project that has been developed by their school in Santiago, Chile. The research presents a qualitative methodology based on interviews, conversations, and observations framed in ethnographic fieldwork carry out in the school for three years. This paper will examine the contradictory process of categorization and differentiation that a school perform about students identified like potentially discriminated subjects. Then, it is analyzed the representations elaborated by students about the intercultural project of their school. Although the main aim of the analyzed educative project was to reduce the possibilities of discrimination to students, this study shows the complexity of the process developed by schools to manage the existing diversity on classrooms does arise not only a new school climate but also tensions, contradictions, and various symbolic appropriations among members of the school community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper begins by historicizing certain issues that are put at stake in the extension of mandatory schooling in Argentina, as elaborated in the 2006 National Education Law which, in which from its extension to the end of secondary education it includes more actors and institutions. In order to accomplish this, laws and regulations are analyzed, as well as parliamentary debates and various documents. The second half of this paper accounts for the different circulating meanings regarding to the schooling of those who attend Secondary Level Educational Centers (students, teachers, directors). Since they did not tend to identify youths and adults as subjects of the regulation that establishes compulsory education, it is argued that historical configurations intervene in this stance, configurations that are linked to said command as well as to personal experiences. In this second half of the paper, the records of the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two Secondary Level Educational Centers are analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

but with greater attention to students’ computer literacy than teachers. At the same time, previous studies on digital literacy of teachers are unsustainable and mainly skewed on pre-service teachers than in-service teachers. These realities point to the need to investigate and implement effective and sustainable initiatives for improving digital literacy and online life-long learning for in-service teachers in Africa. This paper therefore presents a specialised MOOC platform known as TEP (Teachers’ E-learning Portal) for digital literacy and online life-long learning for in-service teachers in Uganda. TEP is built for environments with inadequate access to computers, internet and technical assistance. As such, TEP is accessible online or offline, managed by accredited local universities in collaboration with beneficiary secondary schools, and runs on existing resources in schools (technical personnel, computers and internet). Results from initial implementation of a computer literacy MOOC through TEP indicate that irrespective of age, when teachers are adequately supported internally by their schools and externally by a university, can improve their digital literacy and subsequently engage in online life-long learning. In addition, the results both in terms of high percentage of teacher participants’ completions (89%) and high volume of educational e-content generated, confirm TEP as an effective, attractive, and self-sustainable MOOC platform for in-service teachers’ in resource constraint environments. The paper finishes with an analysis of the relevance of TEP to Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper reflections related to the pedagogical process of postgraduate in the medical specialization, made by the authors after having read the essential statements in the article "Reflections on the Final Paper of th e Specializations", published by Medisur. A deep analysis of the above-mentioned work raised the need to expose, in a synthetic way, some particular considerations about the topic, not aimed at replying, but with the purpose of clarifying some invariant issues corresponding to the object of study in which it is inscribed, in this case the pedagogical process of postgraduate in specialization, its purposes and essential characteristics according with the most updated theoretical studies about the theme, from which some answers to the questions made by the author of the cited publication are derived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]