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

The study investigated institutional identity’s perception among teachers and students at a Public Research Centre in Mexico, from 2019 to 2022. Utilizing Social Identity Theory, research explored how individuals categorized themselves within the institution and how this influenced their sense of belonging and productivity. Through a quantitative analysis from 151 teachers and 146 students, the study uncovered both shared perceptions, such as satisfaction, loyalty, and prestige, and distinct views, also understanding of institutional vision. Key factors identified for teachers included Brand, Commitment and Knowledge, and Vision and Opportunity Areas, while students emphasized Commitment to Regional Development. Despite challenges in data collection due to the pandemic and in sampling, findings revealed a strong connection and satisfaction with PRC among both groups. However, teachers exhibited a more critical stance on the opportunity areas compared to students. Study recommended regular evaluations of institutional identity to enhance community engagement and academic productivity.

The migration of the Venezuelan population has resulted in numerous groups of children and teens joining the Colombian school system. In order to explore this fact, a research was undertaken under an interpretative and critical paradigm, to analyze the social interpretation of Colombian teachers working in institutions that host Venezuelan students. This research portrays a qualitative-based focus, with a phenomenological-hermeneutic design, to provide interpretation to the subjectivity of the 152 participants from the Yumbo municipality, Valle del Cauca, who were interviewed. From this population group, 69 key subjects were selected for their responses to be processed in relation to pedagogical practices in classrooms characterized by interculturalism. In this article, some of the results are reported in one of the semantic units, which showcase the social representations on three fundamental concepts: intercultural classrooms, project-based pedagogy and educational success linked to challenges, acceptance, rejection and the need for training.

A phenomenological research was developed through the method of Karol Wojtyla's integral experience, focused on two structures that make up the dynamic ontic unit of the person: "the man acts" and "something happens in the man". The research articulates six publications related to the nature of science (NOS) that include field research, documentaries and critical essays. Conferences, papers and other related articles are included. The stages of the Wojtylian method were used to present the research actions and interpret the researcher's experience: experience, comprehension and expression. Intersubjectivity was carried out with four fellow researchers who responded to an open instrument. Simultaneously, the research line titled Epistemology in science teacher formation was created. The interpreted results allow us to strengthen the line of research created and enrich the applicability of the personalistic and realistic Wojtylian method, practically unknown in our educational environment.

Higher education institutions must respond to the challenges of globalization in a holistic and relevant way. This involves addressing pedagogical and disciplinary trends, recognizing sociocultural diversity, and contributing creatively to the solution of global problems through the internationalization of higher education. This qualitative-interpretive research aims to analyze the internationalization of the curriculum (IoT) at the University of the Amazon (Florencia-Caquetá, Colombia) through an emergent categorization system. Official documents and a survey applied with a questionnaire of open questions to 26 teachers from six faculties attached to the institution were analyzed. The information was hermeneutically processed using these phases: coding, categorization, analysis-contrast, and interpretation. The results allowed the construction of a categorical system of 4 dimensions, 6 categories and 37 subcategories, which will be useful to support institutional decisions and develop a research instrument to deepen this area of knowledge.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the causal, elaborative, and macrostructural inferences of narrative and expository texts in children in the first, second, and third grades of primary education. It is a descriptive work that used the survey as a technique by means of a questionnaire containing one text of each type followed by questions of causal, elaborative, and macrostructural inference (León, 2003; García, 2006; van, 1978), whose grades were averaged. The results allow us to conclude that there is a greater ease for causal inferences in both texts, a decrease in elaborative inferences compared to the expository text, and a greater difficulty for macrostructural inferences. The differences between the averages showed that, as the school grade advances, the greater initial causal inferential ease in the reading of narrative texts gives way in favor of the expository text, favoring the processing of local textual information (causal inferences) to the detriment of creativity (elaborative inferences).

University teaching requires permanent research in the different disciplines that make up the broad spectrum of higher education. The purpose of this article is to present some findings from a broader investigation, whose objective is to characterize the conceptions that university mathematics teachers have regarding mathematics, its teaching and its learning. A descriptive qualitative methodology was used, with a questionnaire to identify and analyze these conceptions in the participating teachers. The responses were analyzed through careful interpretation and theoretical discussion. The results suggest that in the subjects who made up the research unit, there is no single or radical position regarding mathematics, teaching and learning, but rather the coexistence of various approaches is observed. Additionally, some differences were observed in mathematical conceptions between teachers, while the evaluations corresponding to teaching and learning are similar.

In the Colombian Pacific, there is a rich oral heritage of Afro-Colombian groups that has impacted the language of these communities. In this article, we review some ideas related to the oral tradition of the Afro-Pacific as part of our contribution to reaffirming the cultural values of the community in the region. The intention is to contribute to studies on the values of the African diaspora by examining oral tradition as a valuable tool for understanding the legacy of ancestral knowledge. We present some ideas on the relationship between oral tradition and resistance, discuss the need to include oral traditions in school curricula, and conclude with some pedagogical implications derived from the Afro-Colombian community's oral tradition for the preservation of the entire country's cultural identity.

This article aims to analyze the pedagogical ideas of Dr. Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa, presented in different fragments of his works, especially those in which Democratic Humanism, the New School and the Teaching State are evident, because they constitute a legacy important for Venezuelan education at all levels. A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was carried out on the pedagogical ideas of the aforementioned author, taking into consideration the analysis methodology of the Historical Discourse Approach (EHD), proposed by Wodak (2003). It was possible to reach the conclusion that the pedagogical ideas of this author are produced from an original way of showing the arguments and of attenuating and intensifying the statements, which allows us to observe power relations, intentions and ideologies. Finally, through his pedagogical ideas, a power relationship is established between those who direct educational activity, in this case the State, and those who receive it as an imposition on the entire society.

The purpose of the study was to reveal, understand and interpret the meanings that social actors give to environmental education in the management of the Villa Morena and La Morenera communities located in the Palavecino municipality of Lara state. The research was based on a qualitative approach, epistemologically from the conception of knowledge, under the theoretical perspective of interpretation, methodologically supported by phenomenology and hermeneutics. Three informants were considered as social actors for each urbanization. The results were categorized and coded, emerging four categories and thirty-one subcategories. The informants expressed a lack of knowledge on the part of the community members to deal with the environment, as well as the management of waste and solid waste. Urbanism requires the formation of responsible citizens, committed to their peers. Management allows the management of needs and problems in organized communities.

Adopting responsible environmental practices ensures that natural resources are used sustainably. This is essential to ensure that future generations can also benefit from the resources and the environment. For this reason, the objective of this research is to analyze the environmental policies, strategies and technologies used in gypsum mining for sustainable management in La Guajira, Colombia. Considering that they are essential for various reasons, especially in environmental, industrial and extractive contexts such as mining. Furthermore, this study is descriptive and theoretical in nature, adopting a non-experimental research design due to its qualitative nature, so that the variables are not deliberately manipulated. The population of interest is made up of the mining companies Yesos Sdinyc S.A.S., Yesos Colombia S.A.S., and the artisanal gypsum mine in Manaure. The results revealed with regard to environmental policies within companies, there is a lack in their application; Regarding the implementation of environmental strategies and technologies, companies have taken the initiative to improve their mining activities. Despite the efforts of some of these companies to improve and contribute to environmental care, the adoption and implementation of comprehensive strategies that promote efficient management of natural resources and ensure responsible and sustainable operational practices in gypsum mining are recommended.