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The present paper wants to share the project called "Participative Community methodologists in ludoteca felt and thought from education". It stared in 2022. The idea is part of a process in the subject Community and Institutional Psychology, that belongs to the career of University technicality in Social Education of the Faculty of Education of the National University of Cuyo. This process began 5 year ago and aims deepening and building bridges of knowledge and meanings between Social Education and Community Psychology. Furthermore, this experience is part of the Educational Social Practices Program (PSE) belonging to the Secretariat of Extension and Linkage of the UNCuyo. This project sought to ensure that students who were studying the university subjectof Community and Institutional Psychology, of the FED - UNCuyo, applied participatory community methodologies. They recived the tutoring of advanced students and graduates of the carrear and teachers. The project was carried out in a place called "ludoteca" in the "Nucleus of Innovation and Development of Opportunities" (NIDO). In addition, the specific objectives were: 1- Carry out methodologies that promote understanding of the socio-historical context; 2- Analyze current problems and needs that afflict the child population; 3- Understand the population dynamics involved and 4- Maintain, through play, a healthy space that favors the construction of strategies to address the problems of daily life. The starting point was theoretical references that put in a constant dialogue between community psychology and social education knowledges in latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recurrent changes that we are experiencing nowadays indicates that we are immerse in the XXI century, which means that we are facing a globalized society that requires an ethical, critical and aware individual capable to face the different problems that afflict their communities or country of residence. That is why talking about linking ethical values with university responsibility is necessary, considering that the vast Latin America must educate, not only and individual trained to carry out and activity in a certain discipline of knowledge, but also that he is responsible professional with the institution that formed him, as well as with the environmental, ecological, moral and social elements. This paper aims to describe the different definitions of University Social Responsibility (RSU) talking into account characteristics such as: 1.- Impact of this in the Globalized Society 2.-Emergence of the RSU concept, based on the laws that gave rise to it, 3.- Differences between Corporate Social Responsibility (RSE) and University Social Responsibility, 4.-Ethical values and their involvement with University Social Responsibility [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis Data mining in the educational field. In the literature review the articles published in the databases and indexes were analyzed: Springer Link, Scielo, Ebsco, Redalyc, Google Académico, Dialnet, Researchgate, Scopus, Latindex. We focus on texts that refer to Latin America as a region or to a set of countries, rather than to particular countries in the region. We have also focused on texts exclusively based on research in education. And as a result have a reference material on the state of the art of the topic Data Mining in Education or Educational Data Mining in its acronym in English. In conclusion, data mining in the educational field is a new resource to reach the detection and forecast of phenomena in the educational field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses two fundamental aspects in the context of contemporary educational thinking. On the one hand, it enters into characterizing the educational from the Latin American social, theoretical and historic context, describing the configurative components of the process from Freire, Maturana and Ilich, and on the other hand, developing a synthesis of the border proposals of the sciences of cognition through a comprehensive and active educational orientation base located in the context of the ecology of knowledge and the unique cultural mosaic of South America. The methodological basis is fundamentally hermeneutic and epistemological-political. The result is a contribution to the educational discussion revealing, the processes of educational transformation, both at a personal and community level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to contrast the Freirian educational ontology with the current guidelines of decolonial pedagogy. To achieve this purpose, this papers considers three fundamental aspects: the first, raises the core elements of Paulo Freire's liberating education, which include the break with the banking conception of education, the humanizing process of pedagogy and the decoding of the world through words. Next, the critical postulates that, from the decolonial pedagogy, are made to the work of Freire are pointed out. Finally, the need to orient knowledge towards an epistemic reconfiguration of another, free of modern Eurocentric patterns, is postulated. [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 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 main goal of this paper is to produce a comparative policy analysis of nine pension systems (Chile, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, Bolivia, Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic) by reviewing four variables of interest and by analyzing in-depth interviews of officials in charge of supervising pension systems. In this evaluation of pension education programs in Latin America, the experiences of Chile and Uruguay stand out. The study also examines social security education, which helps inform people about their rights and obligations under social security systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To analyze the researches conducted in Latin America on education for health during the last ten years, identifying the different conceptual developments proposed about this theme and the criticism made about it. Methods: This is a qualitative research describing the state of the art; forty articles from Brazil, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico, and retrieved from searches in Pubmed, Lilacs, Redalyc, Scielo, Ovid, Science Direct, Oxford Journals, and Dialnet were examined. Results: The education for health is a multifocal and polysemic field with different purposes and theoretical trends. It was found that most of the authors cared for assuming a stance regarding this field, though few of them undertake the task to conceptualize both education and health. Conclusion: Different visions about education for health were perceived; however, this work criticizes the poor articulation observed in the papers between theory and practice on this regard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this paper is the impact assessment analysis of the pilot project Rede@prender carried out in Colombia under the Programme EUROsociAL within the overall context of the Euro-Latin American cooperation. The first part of the paper introduces to, on the one hand, the Euro-Latin American cooperation model and the Programme's overall philosophy, while on the other hand presents the contents of the Colombian policy on education in citizenship competencies within which context the project was carried out. The second part elaborates an in-depth analysis of the main characteristics of the pilot project and tries to give account of its impact and achieved results. Finally, the third and inal part of the text contains some considerations on the application of the evaluation criteria, best practices and lessons learned from the project Rede@prender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims at setting out some of our research team's theoretical concerns. The team is made up of part of the teaching staff of the School of Social Work, UNC. Its main research subject is difference within Social Sciences and its related meanings, such as unity, totality, otherness, ownliness, and so on. Different sources from a varied field, such as education, politics and gender , are analyzed in this sense. Within this framework, in this paper we propose a debate about the work "The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation" from Jaques Rancière, in which Joseph Jacotot's educative experience is analyzed. Jacotot was a French teacher exiled in Holland that had the challenge of teaching French without any knowledge of Dutch language. We consider that Rancière's contribution poses a different and controversial perspective about equality and inequality within the pedagogical relationship and the emancipation processes. The author understands that these processes are realized through the emancipation of intelligence since a conscious act of will. In the light of our research team questions, which entail the tension between rights and exclusion within the educative field, his work brings a lot of questions to us. We aim at analyzing this perspective from other authors' arguments, such as those of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, which allow us to debate and contextualize Rancière's ideas in the light of different Latin-American educative experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a comparative view of the training of economists in Latin America, analyzing curricula, commonly utilized textbooks, professors' time-commitments, teaching methods, and the use of technologies and computational tools. Also, following the approach of Colander (2005), the paper presents the results of a survey of Economics students, creating a socioeconomic profile of them and examining their attitudes and opinions. Among the regularities found for the five countries, particularly notable is the lack of connection between students' expectations regarding job market demand for economists and the actual demand by employment sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to locate the origin of the history of ideas from XIX century in Colombia, in the interpretative intention of the authors of the second half of the century, who have the intention to give meaning to historical facts using a conceptual structure taken from different ideologies or philosophic currents in vogue at that moment in Europe, without stopping in the purely descriptive or historical interest. In the twentieth century we will be studying relevant authors or publishing their original studies to complete a certain canon of representatives from the intellectuality of the epoch. The question is for the criterion which defines the selection and the mode to link the ideas in general and the philosophical in particular to the development of the cultural and social processes. The paper shows some alternative hypotheses that take the contributions from text science and other contemporary disciplines that consider the study of the ideas of the XIX century without falling into the totalizations that have been censured. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes and explains the emergence and development of the concept of educational justice in Iberoamerica. From the comparison of the production among three countries, it suggests various reasons to explain the emergence of this concept and the convergence in its recent development. On the one hand, due to the growing inequalities in society and education; on the other hand, because the conceptualization of educational justice has emerged to change actions and shape future expectations, which, generally, alludes to the equitable distribution of learning or knowledge relevant to contemporary society. Finally, it draws up the internationalization of national discourses, which have led to particular hybrids around the conception and the implementation of educational justice. It is concluded pointing out some convergent trend in speeches, but variation in practices derived from each national tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Framed within the development policies for the region, educational agendas for Latin America represent specific commitments that transcend the improvement in the results of specific tests permeating both pedagogical practices and conceptual frameworks in which these ones acquire meaning. This paper covers some of the commitments made by these agendas and develops the general framework in which participation of philosophical community is expected and required as a guarantor and promoter of the construction of spaces for reflection and action on educational system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The results of an educational project aimed at promoting the development of critical thinking and promote interest in experimental sciences in High Schools and College students is presented. In this paper, we made a compilation of several activities, which ways of integrating information technology and communication (ICT) in various experiments of science, which together can be used to implement a low cost "classroom-laboratory". With ICT we refer to the convergence of computers, software, audiovisual systems, Internet, telephone, and other equipment that integrates with some of these devices. To this end, several projects were developed, that can be transferred to high schools and colleges settings, with limited financial resources, as is frequent in Latin America. The projects highlight the methodological aspects of science and seek to integrate areas such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science, art, etc. They aim to answer the questions: how do we know this?, why do we believe in that? These questions illustrate the nature of scientific thought. With the advent of programs such as "One Laptop per Child" that are being implemented in several Latin American countries, it is appropriate to use these resources as a basis to generate low cost laboratories. This contribution may be a useful tool to improve the quality of science learning and to encourage vocations in science and engineering. Furthermore, the development of a critical thinking, along with acquisition of skills in the use of ICT, can be essential in many academic and professional fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I analyze what personal traits define a good politician from the perspective of the Latin-American legislators. In addition to verifying whether these qualities are the same elected by citizens, in this work I compare them with the qualities that serve to win elections. Furthermore, different analyses remark the effect that political knowledge has on these preferences, making charisma more attractive among citizens with low levels of political sophistication. However, little is known about the impact of this variable for politicians. This article measures a)whether education and political knowledge also alter the perception of the deputies on what characteristics are more valued b) which of these characteristics serve better to gain elections, as well as c) the influence of constituents' political sophistication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research context that this article seeks to show the different models of college, from the evolution and development of universities and their management in Latin America, particularly in Chile, and how they affect the development of societies, both past and contemporary, highlighting some similar and different characteristics that they have. It should be noted that the Chilean model of education has been considered to have a great impact on some countries in Latin America, especially in Colombia. Moreover, the general objective of this research was the reflection on the reforms of higher education in Latin America and the impact these reforms have had in recent years in Chile, which seem to have created a high dissatisfaction in the social context, due to the excessive commercialization of educational services. For the development of this paper an extensive review of the literature, which accounts for the phenomenon to be investigated is made and semi-structured interviews were carried out to experts in the field, which helped to understand what authors explain in the literature concerning models and educational reforms in Latin America and the current situation of education in Chile, thereby achieving a clear vision of the reality of the problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we aim to address some issues of equity in higher education, from the particular perspective of Latin American reality. Our interest is highlight the fact of the theoretical and methodological positions through which equity policies are defined in the field of higher education and how social meanings and ways are established around them. In the first part, a brief description of the scenarios of higher education in Latin America is done, both in regard to the socio-political structural processes and the dynamics of higher education systems. In the second part, a conceptual reconstruction is approached to allow us to show the movements operating in university policies in recent decades which have resulted in the implementation of the so called policies of equity. In the third part of the paper, different levels of specification of the concept of equity in university dynamics are analyzed, which account for their productive potential practices. Finally, we describe some of the most important initiatives displayed in recent years by some countries of the region framed in equity policies, focusing on their effects and scope. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the importance of education as the core of the integration processes in Latin America. Vindicates the principles of Simon Bolivar and his teacher Simon Rodriguez, who considered our identity expressed in the strengths that unite Latin as the common language, culture and religion, which are fundamental to any integration process to strengthen our country's subjugation of major powers covered in their technological capacity could impose its conditions. It states that any process of social development is linked to education. This is the essence of the human capacity to foster innovation inventiveness and creativity. Predisposes education energies that contribute to human development. This article attempts to demystify other criteria, in the sense of believing that some factors, such as trade and institutionalization alone contribute to development. They are multi-causal factors associated, where education is the main enabling this development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to present, on one hand, the main theoretical categories and notions that, as a frame of reference, sustain a group of recent studies--produced in the European and Anglo-Saxon academic world--on the emergence of education as a disciplinary field. On the other hand, the article offers a panoramic view of the processes of the global institutionalization of education as a disciplinary field; such a view is provided by analyzing national cases from Europe and the United States that serve as examples of the use and potential of the presented categories and notions. The paper aspires not only to reveal production that on the most part is not translated into Spanish, but also to enrich the regional historiographical and theoretical discussion that will permit advances in the study of the origins of education as a disciplinary field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper studies the formation of the field known as Latin-Americanism, and using the Pierre Bourdieu's theory of fields, offers a provocative reading on the debates that taken place within Latin-Americanism as examples of a struggle for control of the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses, from the observational methodology, the study of early stages of sports initiation, in terms of reliability and estimation of the sample, from the use of the Generalizability Theory. The purpose of this study was: 1) to analyse data quality of the ad hoc observational tool applied to Basque pelota, 2) to learn about the accuracy of generalizing from a hypothetical coding and recording of different numbers of games. Fleiss' and Cohen's Kappa coefficients were calculated, and an analysis of variance and generalizability were implemented. The results show that the observational tool allowed us to obtain a reliable record once the observers' training process had been performed (Kappas above .80 and variability of the observers close to 0) and, secondly, to estimate the level of accuracy generalization (generalizability coefficient, ξρ² (Δ)) from the coding of 4 (ξρ²(Δ) = .87), 6 (ξρ²(Δ) = .91), 8 (ξρ² (Δ) =. 93), 10 (ξρ² (Δ) = .95) or 15 (ξρ² (Δ) = .96) matches. Study results support the conclusion that we have a tool for evaluating the game that is applicable in the formative stages of Basque pelota, and the number of games necessary to generalize with a particular degree of accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a literature review that considers documents and research work on environmental education (EA) in general, and on EA and legislation in particular, produced at the international, regional and national levels, and guided by the questions: What do works linking EA and education in Argentine legislation contend? In what context, within the EA field, are they inserted? Through the referred reviews we characterize the EA international and Latin American panorama, and analyze the contributions of five articles and a book relevant to our focus on Argentina. Without claiming to have done thorough research, this approach allowed us to perceive the need to deepen the studies that, apart from describing the content of the various laws, analyze its meaning in the historical context in which each regulation was passed, as well as the relationship between forces in the field of environmental education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses some issues regarding the institutional and teacher's identity in the Latin American context. Taking as reference our own experience as researchers and teachers in different schools in Rosario, Argentina, we will consider necessary to mention that identity needs to be approached in light of the sudden changes that have been taken place in the contemporary political world since 2001 in our country. So, questions like: How can we sustain teacher's identity in a frame of political and social changes?; how these processes can be built within the educational community?; or what can be said about factors which make teachers suffer? And, finally, what kind of alternatives can help to rethink professional and institutional identity in our educational organizations? =, will be the main goal of this reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education Against the Tide in Latin American Prisons: education versus punishment. Promoting education in prison is latterly a difficult task. This paper's objective is to examine the structural causes of this complex situation. We have accomplished a research on official documents and laws, and visited prisons in many Latin American countries, in order to produce this study. Among the many discussed issues, we may highlight: impunity and the failure of the justice system; the limits of punishment; punishment as an ideology; the punishment imagery and the institutional contradictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the impact on total factor productivity (TFP) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries of trade-related technology diffusion from the North (denoted by NRD), education, and governance. The NRD of developing countries is defined as a weighted sum of R&D stocks in the North, with weights related to openness with the North's trading partners. Industryspecific NRD is based on the North's industry-specific R&D stocks, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are that: i) the impact of education and governance on TFP is significantly larger in LAC than in other developing countries, while the opposite holds for NRD; ii) education, governance and NRD have additional effects on TFP in LAC's R&D-intensive industries through their interaction with the other two variables; and iii) since NRD increases with openness to the North and with the North's R&D stocks, both variables raise the South's TFP directly as well as through interaction with education and governance. These interaction effects imply that increasing the level of any of the three policy variables — education, governance or openness — results in virtuous growth cycles. These are smallest for an increase in one of these variables, stronger for an increase in two of them, and strongest for an increase in all three variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For a long period of time, it has been seen the rebirth of several approaches and models of Guidance. The purpose is to bring a theoretical support to the practices that are made upon this professional field. These approaches and models of Guidance have been developed all over the world, including Latin America. Nowadays, it seems that the Latin American countries should initiate or reinitiate a reconsideration process of our theoretical bases, fundamental approaches or models. So, this paper aims to present some basic criteria for the development of a Guidance Model for Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the actual debate on citizenship within democracy, admitting a crisis in educational matters is highly relevant (NUSSBAUM, 2010; BERKOWITZ, 2001). Thus, if we want to understand why the ancient educational image is problematic and unsatisfying to the citizens of democratic governments, it is unavoidable, from the history of philosophy point of view, to quote the teaching of preeminent political theorists. Needless to say, the power of education in forming people's character and opinions is widely recognized. Nonetheless, by looking at the history of the institution, it seems obvious that its purpose is not only to form habits but to circumscribe the knowledge of the persons in such a way as to make one set of opinions always inevitable (RUSSELL, 1961). Current paper reveals the theoretical presuppositions of the political and educational doctrines of two main figures of Ancient and Modern times, namely, Aristotle and Locke, respectively. Further considerations will ensue on whether the ancient image of virtue, or its antagonism and possible use in liberalism, has any power to represent the present conditions of equity and justice sought after in civil life within Latin American democracies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of research on socioeconomic inequality in Bogota's secondary education (year 2009). The results show that socioeconomic student level is significantly associated both to educational access (public or private), and to educational quality (ranking in State test - ICFES). This demonstrates that in Bogotá not only does each social class study separately, but also that rich people have access to a better education than poor people. This situation of social segregation (apartheid) aggravates some of the already pervasive Colombian problems: lack social mobility, economic inequality and illegitimacy of the political system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will indicate some of the challenges the contemporary world poses for education under the influence of globalization, processes that affect many areas of human thought and action. It expounds a number of conceptualizations on that subject and invites a serious analysis of this phenomenon due to its social implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of my paper is to make a balance in the rural school historiography in Mexico, and through it, dialogue with those made in other Latin American countries. Instead of trying to have a joint vision of rural educational development in Latin America through a supposed progress, what really interests is to go beyond national barriers with the purpose of generating a debate about the heterogeneity of different local realities and theoretical-methodological perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper picks up the discussion on Norbert Elias' social development concept, as a theoretical model which may contribute to the sociologic and historical studies on indigenous peoples in Latin America. Highlighting the case of Manuel Quintín Lame in Colombia, overcoming the traditional visions of social scientists and aiming at new cognitive instruments is suggested here, in order to achieve a reading in the light of notions of figuration, process continuity and intercultural education. The aim is to go beyond the genealogic explanations with the subsequent search of alternatives in process sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to analyze the sensibilities manifest in contemporary mass culture, starting with a proper conceptualization followed by empirical research of mainstream narrative genres. The sustained presence of veristic and biographical genres plus the rise of fantastic genres, reveal a set of peculiarities that allows a better understanding of cultures emotional nuances. In this paper I will examine the different genres and their meaning and at the same time the public's preferences will be pondered by comparing sales of books and movie house attendances in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and Spain in 2009. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper explores the theoretical impact of postcolonial studies in Latin American Intellectual field. To this end, we analyze the main proposals and core problem that this new paradigm raises in the critical and theoretical practice of Latin American Studies. We focus primarily on the contributions of Walter Mignolo, Nelly Richard, Mabel Moraña, Beatriz Sarlo and Cornejo Polar, among the most important contributions from Latin America, as well as in some categories of Spivak and Homi Bhabha thhat allow us to reflect more deeply on the state of this discussion that is still open. In this sense, the question that constantly appear the article is if are possible postcolonial studies in Latin America", What is the theoretical richness the bring to the debate of 'third world'?, Is a more theoretical dominance metropolitan? To approach an answer, we propose to investigate the two positions that are held more firmly in the field of Latin American intellectuals: first one that looks suspiciously arrival of postcolonial studies, and one that seeks to create areas of negotiation and theoretical enrichment . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers some guidelines for the characterization and development of college pastoral work, understood as a specific form of the service to the faith and the promotion of justice intrinsically implied by this service, through a communicative offer of a dialogal, interpersonal and social character, inseparable from an inculturated proposal- i.e., intimately fused with the concrete cultural reality, of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our communities of higher education directed by the Society of Jesus in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part of the analysis of the history of ideas in Latin America, which is a field of thought that contributes to recovering contributions from diverse fields of knowledge, and which has been focused on by intellectuals who consider our identity to be a theme of reflection. Luis Beltran Prieto Figueroa was one of the more influential intellectuals in 20th Century Venezuela. This paper touches on some of his works, such as Joven Empínate, El Estado y la Educación en América Latina, El humanismo democrático y la educación, La política y los hombres among others, and through philosophical discourse analyzes his ideas in relation to the fundamental doctrines of democracy, their interpretation of reality, and their positions in reference to education, politics, poetry, and nationalism as a dignifying attitude in Latin American countries in the face of the power of the United States. Among the conclusions we find the characterization of his ideas in favor of truly democratic education, the intellectual commitment with the noble aspirations of the people, his ability in studying the Venezuelan reality, and his gift at overcoming factors which were an obstacle to the technical and cultural development desired in Venezuela and Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the views that mostly prevail in History textbooks concerning Latin America in the period between 1980 and 2000, with the purpose of recognizing continuities and breaches in the formulation of historical curricula contents. Such perspective seeks to study pre-eminent discourses about these issues related with the conformation of Latin American nationalities and the ideas that these stories imply concerning the citizens' education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently there is a significant amount of information that refers to the generation of knowledge about teaching and learning modalities supported by technologies. This paper gives an outline of the work between 2003 and 2013 that has been published in Latin America through scientific media type. The purpose of this study was to identify the countries of origin, the thematic areas addressed, the methodology and the main discoveries. It was found that there is a tendency to make publications lacking of descriptive empirical referent; there are few publications that refer to research on mixed research paradigms, quantitative or qualitative. Similarly it was found that the information collected mainly comes from some specific areas such as psychology, education, economics, and computer science, among others; and there are few works that are focused on the development of research scientific production; this scientific area is weak, but it is at the same time an area of opportunity to be developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]