Sistema Regional de Información
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el Caribe, España y Portugal

The movements of alternative education have become a trend in recent years and the number of educational proposals that are framed within this movement at the level of the Spanish and world state has grown. Here we present the review of the literature carried out around the concept of alternative education by providing a definition of it and identifying the general characteristics common to this movement. To carry out this analysis, it has been necessary to review the key antecedents of this alternative education movement since, although their projects are sometimes presented as innovative alternatives, they are pedagogies and methodologies based on proposals from more than a century ago, such as Alexander's Sutherland Neill or Rebeca and Mauricio Wild. For this, the educational experiences of Summerhill (United Kingdom), The Sleeping Lion (Ecuador) and Paideia (Spain) have been analyzed in addition to the previous pedagogies. The results of the review carried out show that alternative education is a concept where different theories, worldviews and realities are integrated, but from which common characteristics of these projects are also collected that help to understand the reasons why in the 21st century these proposals They have reached the height and importance of which we speak.

In Mexico, education is regulated mainly in Article 3 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States and in the General Education Law. Both devices support the contribution of education for better human coexistence. The university space is a potential for the construction of social and affective bonds, as part of the basic needs that the human being tries to cover as a social entity. These links can be improved for a better coexistence, and from the school curriculum of higher education the development of the socio-emotional skills of its students is strengthened. The objective of this essay is to demonstrate the development of socio-emotional skills in higher education students, and to help them to better coexist, as well as to present a proposal with an outline of the routes to be followed in order to promote the aforementioned skills in the higher education curriculum.

The principles of the Educational Project of the Surcolombiana University, propose to create the conditions that contribute to a better coexistence in a multicultural environment. Accordingly, the objective of this research is to evaluate an integration strategy proposed by the Infant Education program, in order to achieve a closer relationship with citizens of other countries and cultures. Through questionnaires, students' perceptions of the relationship between these activities and the achievement of institutional principles were collected. The results show that the activity that students most relate to the assimilation and understanding of these principles is dance, while learning a second language was the most weakly associated activity.

If we ask where knowledge arises, the answer of some may be by transmission, for many others knowledge arises from social interaction and all these answers are valid in a certain way, since the Responsible Style of Thought should be taken into account and the epistemological approach on which it is based. Within the context of education, the teaching process.- learning is imminently permeated by cognitive patterns, which reflect the teacher's style of thinking, of how his theoretical framework leads him to influence the learning outcomes of his students, and in turn, as the student receives the content developed by the teacher.

The present study starts with the recognition that in the present time the university is the object of several perspectives, critical and analytical studies in the formation of suitable and consequent professionals in their human and academic formation; it seeks its transformation so that it contributes as a stimulating element of the culture and the society in the conditions that the present times' demands. It is thus that the actors immersed in the educational process are active agents of the educational practice (in the educational practice: teaching and learning) because it is required of teachers and students engaged in the process, as the study: It focuses on a professional distance learning program in the traditional distance learning method with the support of the virtuality; therefore, the distance education teachers offering the highest quality standards in the human, pedagogical and disciplinary formation of their students according to the offer of the programs.

The academy in action allows to describe the process that in the classroom allows to impregnate the studentes of the salesian and investigative charisma, of the development of projects based on the use of academic concepts in practice, interacting with society. It is the description of a real experience lived in the classrooms of the Salesian Polytechnic University of Guayaquil, Systems Engineering Career, in which the students transit from the individualistic self to being social, active and participatory in solving problems that affect society through knowledge and technologies. This article describes how to apply a project-based learning strategy framed in technology and action.

Me gusta concebir el mundo en términos de fenómenos locales que crecen, evolucionan y transforman. Me gusta nadar en los matices de las influencias que migran de lo puntual a lo general y viceversa. Quisiera plasmar la empatía como nuestra capacidad de ver lo que otros ven sin tener sus lentes puestos y poder apreciar la belleza y la riqueza de lo que no es completamente nuestro, respetando su flujo.Quiero una cultura que, como la luz blanca, pase serena por nuestras ventanas y nos llene de seguridad y claridad, conociendo que los espectros de todos los colores viajan en ella en su propia frecuencia y resonando con sus propios objetivos. Los colores no compiten, no riñen, no tienen egos, ellos viajan y se acompañan sabiendo que todos son necesarios e importantes.Arte, sociedad, ciudad, política, religión, juicios y prejuicios que giran en un espiral humano de vivencias y experiencias cuyo motor está fuertemente marcado por la inercia de la cultura.

Nowadays, when the mighty of the earth advance at the speed of a meteor with the sole objective of commodifying for their own benefit –under a winner-takes-all logic–;  when, in need of inequality (they are nourished by asymmetric interdependence), they deepen the gap opened in the world and increasingly distance its two halves –hunger and feast–; when they sow their own thinking all over the planet and label the alien thinking as being low intensity or zero thought; when they steal the most precious thing in every human’s life, that is the word; when, in summary, the globalization of the market annihilates us, this paper addresses the phenomenon, locates its milestones –inequality and distance between men, eviction of thought, theft of logos– and through them it builds ways of return, ways of ascension: the rescue of the word (a beautiful word, that is, a word of one’s own), the complex thought and the proximity and equality of all human beings.

Virtual learning environments have become a tool to acquire knowledge and avoid limiting access to education. This research study aims at diagnosing, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the performance of elementary school third grade students in Physical Education (PE) at a school of Montería, through the LUDOS platform with the use of ICT.  This was a quantitative descriptive correlational study with a single control group composed of 28 students. A survey was applied and two pedagogical workshops were held to determine the correlation between learning mediated by information and communication technologies and the students’ academic performance. The findings show that all participants had access to electronic devices with Internet access. As a result of the virtual workshops, academic performance was found to be higher in 36% of students and it remained stable in 43% of students. Additionally, students’ technological skills, capacities and physical condition were found to be improved.

This article describes the crisis that micro, small and medium enterprises have experienced throughout the country during the health emergency (COVID-19), due to low production and reduced sales. It aims to examine the effects of incorporating digital business marketing that becomes a mechanism to deal with this problem and to fill the digital gap of these companies. This issue is addressed considering the socioeconomic difference between those communities that have access to information and communication technologies and those that do not.  In order to collect information, an exploratory comparative descriptive analysis was carried out of the main research studies on the relationship between business digital marketing and the outcomes in business development, employee commitment, positioning, consumer satisfaction and financial performance. Additionally, the authors propose criteria to help bridge this digital gap. The findings show that, despite the existence of great divergences, the companies that today, in face of the current crisis, attempt to leverage their digital technology and connectivity capacity are going to be benefited by an increase in sales and market sustainability with international exposure.