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

This article presents the characterization of the training trajectory of music teachers from a private educational institution in Lima with the International Baccalaureate program, conducted in 2019. Using curriculum vitae formats and semi-structured interviews applied to ten full-time music department teachers, the proposed categories of initial and ongoing training were analyzed. The findings show that the training trajectories range between musical and pedagogical aspects. Initial training was mostly in music, while ongoing training was in pedagogy due to work-related reasons. Based on this information, different types of training trajectories are proposed. In addition, categories emerged about musical training and training in the development of the occupation that reveal ongoing training in non-formal spaces and in the workplace.

The study aimed to analyze the scientific production on the quality of higher education in Chile. A descriptive longitudinal bibliometric review was carried out on articles published in the Scopus database between 2011 and 2021. The articles were classified according to the thematic classification algorithm of Callon et al. (1999). A total of 59 articles were identified, largely published in Latin American journals, and written collaboratively by researchers affiliated with specific institutions. Five important thematic clusters were identified, consisting of two basic, two drivers, and one emerging cluster. The study concludes that the quality of higher education is a relevant research topic in Chile with increasing productivity but high concentration, mainly explored from the perspective of institutional accreditation and quality assurance.

This article discusses the various meanings attributed to the concept of research methodology, based on an analysis of the study plans and programs of three doctoral programs in education in Mexico. These programs have well-established faculty and have produced several generations of trained students. The article outlines the methodology used to analyze the curricular discourse related to the concept of research methodology, and presents findings that highlight the different interpretations given to key elements of this concept across the three programs. The results reveal nine major attributions of meaning to the concept of research methodology, with varying degrees of similarity across the three programs. One shared conception is that research methodology is primarily a logic of knowledge generation, rather than a set of techniques. Additionally, all three programs acknowledge that research methodology is an object of knowledge and training that is constantly evolving. Overall, this article provides valuable insights into the ways in which research methodology is understood and taught in academic settings, particularly within the context of doctoral programs in education. The use of a comparative approach allows for a deeper understanding of the nuances and differences in meaning that exist across different programs.The article is relevant to scholars and educators interested in research methodology and its role in training for educational research.

The purpose of this essay is to analyze legal proposals and public policies related to the entry and permanence of students with special educational needs in higher education, within a Latin American context that includes Mexico and Brazil. To conduct a comparative study, we use a historical-documentary methodology that examines educational legislation and its impact on public policies between 1996 and 2018. Our theoretical perspective is based on the concept of Civilizing Processes, as developed by Norbert Elias (1993; 1998; 2001; 2006; 2011). This perspective emphasizes how societies utilize social relations between different groups to form their constitution and interdependence processes, which in turn impact the actions of individuals as well as the state institutions that govern them. The data we present in this essay show that Mexico and Brazil have established legal frameworks that recognize the rights of students with special educational needs to access higher education. However, we also question the extent to which these legal documents are effectively implemented and how their failure to materialize can negatively impact our civilizing process, hindering progress towards a society that truly respects diversity and inclusivity.

This research study focuses on the process of acquiring the indigenous Mapuce language for teaching purposes in order to contribute to current Mapuzugun Indigenous Language programs. Using a dialogic participatory methodology called Kishu Kimkelay Ta Che, we collaborated with teachers and members of the Mapuce community from a rural school in La Araucanía, Chile. Our findings reveal that echo-sonority plays a crucial role in preparing for the teaching of the indigenous language. This preparation involves the relationship between sound-action, onomatopoeia-toponymy, and nature-language. We argue that these results present a necessary challenge to improve indigenous language programs, which mostly operate under a Western logic, making intercultural articulation in schools challenging.

The objective of this study is to present a systematic review of literature produced in Brazil on the Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) by teachers in basic education. The review considers studies by Reuven Feuerstein between 2000 and 2020 in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Four databases, namely VHL, SciELO, Capes, and Pepsic were searched using the following descriptors: Aprendizagem Mediada, Mediação, Mediação Docente, Professor Mediador, Pedagogia e Mediação, Aprendizaje Mediado, Mediación, Mediación Docente, Maestro Mediador, Pedagogía y mediación Feuerstein, Mediated Learning Experience, Mediated Learning, and Modificabilidade. The OR and END operator was used to combine these descriptors. The analysis revealed that there are numerous studies on MLE in special education and teacher training. However, there is a lack of research on MLE with regard to students in basic education in general. These findings lead us to conclude that Feuerstein’s mediated learning is an under-researched area, indicating the need to understand and interpret the importance of this theme for education.

The aim of this critical essay is to problematize the question of the presence category addressed as one of the essential conditions of liberating education in the proposal of the African-American writer bell hooks (1952-2021), having as a reference scenario the non-presential education developed in the pandemic traffic. The proposal of liberating education will be addressed in view of the need to reflect on the pandemic intercourse, and two elements emphasized in the author’s work will be analyzed in depth: voice and body. Based on the example of online reflection groups conducted with nursing students, a pedagogical strategy capable of recognizing and valuing the voice of different actors in the educational process is presented, prioritizing the meeting beyond the presence traditionally defended in training spaces: an encounter that waits, resists and fights for the possibility of genuine presence.

Social support has been found to play a key role in certain adolescent school behaviours and it is widely accepted that it fosters school engagement. On the contrary, more recent theoretical contributions regarding the principal sources and types of social support during adolescence suggest that this relationship may vary. To respond to this gap in the research the aim of the present study is to determine the predictive power of social support for school engagement (behavioural, emotional and cognitive) in accordance with the source (family, friends, and teachers) and type (emotional, material and informational) of the support provided to determine the most influential ones and to test through a structural model the combined statistical effect of both perspectives. Participants were 323 compulsory secondary school students from the Basque Autonomous Community, aged between 13 and 18 years (M = 14.41, SD = 1.18), being 40% boys and 60% girls. Participants completed two questionnaires, one measuring perceived social support and one measuring school engagement. The results of the present study show that perceived support from all sources and all types of support predict at least one of the three dimensions of school engagement. The results also indicate that support from teachers and emotional support were the source and type of support (respectively) that most strongly predicted school engagement, whose combined effect has been tested using SEM methodology. These findings may be particularly useful for designing future educational intervention programmes that seek to foster school engagement through social support. For example, intervention designs focusing on encouraging certain changes in teachers’ practice to foster a learning experience based on closer relations characterised by trust and recognition are suggested.

Entrepreneurial orientation is a key concept in the organizational context that is becoming increasingly important in the educational field, since the promotion of entrepreneurship has become one of the European Union’s main areas of action in relation to education. Given that the Escala de Orientación Emprendedora - Entrepreneurial Orientation Scale (EOE) is one of the few instruments that enable the assessment of entrepreneurial orientation among students, the first aim of the present study was to adapt it to Basque and validate it in that language (EOE-E). The second aim was to examine the relationship of entrepreneurial orientation with gender and academic performance. The sample comprised 735 students in vocational training. In relation to the first aim, the Confirmatory Factor Analysis corroborated the six-factor structure of the original questionnaire, presenting acceptable internal consistency and stability over time indexes. Evidence of convergent validity and evidence of validity based on relations with other variables, such as self-efficacy and personal initiative was also obtained. The results therefore confirm that evidence was obtained of validity and reliability of the instrument for assessing entrepreneurial orientation among students in vocational training. In terms of the second aim, men were found to have higher mean scores than women for competitiveness, whereas women scored higher than men for learning orientation. Furthermore, in comparison with their lower-performing counterparts, students with better academic grades scored higher for innovativeness, proactiveness, achievement orientation and learning orientation.

Among a multitude of variables that are involved in self-regulated learning and that define the student’s profile, we find learning strategies and academic motivation. The aim of this study was to analyze relationships between learning strategies, attitude toward study, self-concept, and academic achievement. A total of 519 students from upper primary education in Cantabria (Spain) were participants in this cross-sectional study, which used non-experimental, descriptive, correlational methodology. The results confirmed a tendency for greater use of learning strategies, along with optimal motivation towards schoolwork, to be positively related to overall academic achievement. Moreover, low-medium-high levels of learning strategy use and of academic motivation were differentially associated with academic achievement. This study has confirmed that complementary learning strategies such as group work or extracurricular activities, as well as academic self-concept, are predictive of achievement in the subjects considered, as well as of academic achievement in general. Educational contexts that take into account learning strategies and academic motivation are called for, both as a means and as an end in themselves, in order to achieve meaningful, practical and functional learning that leads to higher academic achievement.