Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

We live in an age marked by technological advances. From an educational point of view, a model which requires methodologies adapted to digital media has consolidated, implying that the development of digital competence among the teachers has taken a special importance in order to adapt the learning and teaching process to each individual needs, favouring inclusion of students with special educational needs. This research aims to analyse the digital competency of teachers specialized in the attention to diversity. To this end, a non-experimental, descriptive investigation has been carried out, with a sample of 60 teachers currently working in both the Special and Ordinary Education models. The European questionnaire "DigCompEdu" has been used as analysis tool. Data obtained allows us to conclude that the level of digital competence of teachers who attend diversity in Special Education Schools is lower than the level shown by teachers of Ordinary Schools, showing statistically significative differences in three of the analysed areas. These areas are related to the use of digital competence, the adaptation of evaluation strategies and development of digital competency among the students.

En una societat viral en què l'ésser social reivindica la capacitat de mantenir la distància i en què la representació socialment desitjable del cos, en particular del rostre, reivindica el seu ocultament, la relació educativa a distància representa una àrea crítica que ha de ser més valorada a les agendes de recerca. En aquest estudi es vol explorar el sentiment de pertinença de 144 estudiants que acudeixen a una universitat a distància. Per això, s'ha aplicat un qüestionari obert, prèviament difós en grups tancats d'estudiants a les xarxes socials. S'analitza el sentiment de pertinença dels estudiants mitjançant els tipus de connexions que mantenen amb el campus, el curs, els companys i els professors. L'anàlisi de les narratives manifesta una gran diversitat i densitat d'experiències i expectatives en les connexions i els sentiments de pertinença. Tot i que els professors adquireixen un rol important en l'apropiació del coneixement, són essencialment els companys el focus principal de les connexions i del sentiment de pertinença.

This article seeks to reflect on the meaning and transcendence of formative assessment and the main challenges of assessment practices in Regular Basic Education (EBR by its Spanish initials). A paradigm shift is required that stops peddling traditional teaching and an result-focused culture of evaluation. The documentary analysis of various sources that involved heuristics and hermeneutics of the state of the art made it possible to review representative regulations of global and local educational policy, as well as contemporary and recent research contributions of some significant fundamentals of general and substantive theory. It highlights that in Peru there are several regulations to implement this approach. However, this would not have an impact on international evaluations or on teachers’ pedagogical practice. Likewise, there are still several challenges regarding the development of a culture of evaluation requiring to stop conceiving it as a threat. Teachers are the key factor to achieve an effective implementation of formative assessment, but they need to be recognized in their professional role and consolidate a reflective practice that contributes to the change and transformation process in their pedagogical practice.

 Currently, teacher training demands more flexible, active and participatory teaching proposals, adapted to the needs and characteristics of 21st century students, aimed at developing a set of skills and abilities that respond to a profile that allows them to face the demands social and labor. In this sense, one of the strategies that responds to this is collaborative work that allows them to assume responsibility for their learning, reflect on their cognitive processes and develop knowledge of different complexity. In this context, the objective of this research was to conceptually review what is referred to as collaborative work, as well as its contributions and challenges in teacher training. To this end, the literature on the subject proposed in recent years has been reviewed and analyzed through an exploratory-descriptive methodology. The findings allow us to highlight that teacher training requires the interaction of each other by sharing knowledge, resolving conflicts and solving problems, being tolerant and respectful of others, as well as having greater autonomy and control over the assigned task. Likewise, they require the teacher to know the fundamentals and methodology of collaborative work to propose academic tasks and thus guarantee the expected learning, as well as the expected profile.

This research is a case study that presents the systematization of an educational experience in the Dominican Republic focused on the development of collective memory and social justice. This systematization represents a teaching strategy that promotes intergenerational dialogue on the experiences of a generation that lived through the historical and sociocultural context of Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship, and young people who have learned about it through readings from the school curriculum and exposure to the mass media. The significance of the strategy lies in the identification and examination of concepts developed from a historical-cultural perspective linking education and human development. Key concepts include experience, the social situation of development, knowledge and identity backgrounds, and consciousness

This article is based on the author’s experience as a lecturer in a teacher training program in Intercultural Bilingual Education. It reflects on how the ethnic identity of indigenous young people is constructed before they start their university studies. The aim is to explore the process of identity construction (“Who am I?” “Who are we?”) from significant spaces and experiences in which ethnicity is manifested. This journey attempts to reconstruct the paths followed by young people before entering university as well as the different meanings acquired by their identities. It concludes that assuming oneself as Quechua, Shipibo, Aymara or as a member of any native community constitutes a choice affected by a conflictive intersubjectivity; it is also concluded that ethnic affirmation is a dynamic, conflictive experience in permanent negotiation and without a predefined teleology presented as a motivating tension capable of enabling being and existing.

This article shares the results of the research that was carried out for the purpose of getting the master´s degree. In the study carried out, the images of god that young people were reconstructing and investigated, in order to try to understand what ideas were orienting their decisions in daily life. We worked with a sample of 18 students in the 4th year of initial teacher training at a pedagogical institute in Lima, to whom an interview guide and a focus group guide were applied. The research standpoint was qualitative and the ethnographic type. One of the most important conclusions that it was obtained were that the images of God presented by the students were constructed from beliefs stemming from significant experiences related to relatives and other people from less immediate contexts. In addition, it was also possible to identify that these images of god were not built on the received doctrinal teachings but based on life experiences that were significant to them. Being these images of god the ones that preva´s in his way of understanding, relating and living his faith in god, as well an in his ways of thinking, understading and acting in life.

Due to the lack of integration of Peru’s population for ethnic, social, demographic, and political reasons, the levels of violence and social exclusion have not been related to the need of training professionals in multicultural values. This need has only been addressed in the school context, yet the creation of bilingual and intercultural universities has also contributed positively. However, this may only lead to partial processes of development and population integration. Therefore, a proposal is made for training professionals, especially lawyers, to ensure a much more productive social integration process. Thus, the particular socio-legal contexts could be better understood, leading to a better protection of the rights of indigenous populations, especially in the judicial field.

The implementation of public policies for risk prevention and protection of early childhood continues to be a major challenge for Latin American countries. Although there are international and national regulatory frameworks, policies require articulated multisectoral management with a holistic approach, focusing on developing competencies in those involved in child development: family, school, and community. This process also involves a paradigm shift, banishing the needs-based approach and assuming the human rights-based approach from the perspective of diverse childhoods. The existing regulatory frameworks are still discursive, not operational enough, and disjointed at the different levels of government. This research analyzes the international and national efforts that allowed public policy implementation and reveals how much is being done and how little progress is being made to achieve short and medium-term results that will benefit early childhood.

In the present study it was analyzed the psychometric properties of the State Metacognitive Inventory (O’Neil & Abedi, 1996) in a sample of elementary school Colombian students, with the aim of facilitate its application in the educational context of Colombia. This is an instrumental study and associative kind. A sample of 220 students was intentionally selected from an educative institution from Barranquilla, 50.5% were women with an average age of 10 years old. It was applied the Vallejos et al.’s (2012) version of the instrument that has a three factor structure: self-knowledge, self-regulation and monitoring. Fort the validity estimation it was applied the confirmatory factor analysis, and for the calculation of reliability, McDonald’s Omega Test was used. The results verified the three factors structure, although only the dimension of self-knowledge obtained adequate reliability indexes. Moreover, by comparison of the self-knowledge levels considering the sex of the students, women had higher punctuations with significant statistics differences.