Equity in technological higher education. A look from the Subsystem of Technological Universities in Mexico

This work is part of the results of an investigation that is being carried out at the Technological University of Tula-Tepeji with the objective of analyzing the public policy of creation of the Technological Universities Subsystem (SUT) that the Mexican federal government implemented in response to educational equity. The work corresponds to an investigation with an exploratory and analytical approach that began with the study of theories related to equity in education and the educational policies implemented by the federal government in terms of equity to land with a quantitative study of the SUT. An attempt is made to answer the question: In what way has the SUT contributed to reducing situations of educational inequity in groups of young students from the less favored social strata? to assess scope, for now, only with respect to educational inclusion. However, educational equity is a more comprehensive concept that encompasses other dimensions of analysis and not only effective access to higher education, which is why it is proposed in the end to carry out other complementary studies to make a more objective balance. of the results achieved by the SUT.

Re-thinking reading from institutions, subjects and identity

The question is frequent; What is reading for? The most obvious answers could be: reading is useless, when reading is enjoyed, reading is a free act, to earn well and be socially accepted, it is not necessary to read books, giving books is giving away obligations. Some of these answers invite us and encourage us to read, others completely unlink the reading of everyday life. That is why we should think about what idea of reading the Mexican Education System is offering students. Students (of any educational level) are promised that approaching books will make them great and important in the future; It seems that the subject does not find a reward. The only reason why subjects can be interested in a book is the magical dimension of its content; Everything else begins by being a speech of duty and an abhorred act.

Methodological proposal for the design of learning assessment instruments in educational research

The objective of this document is to present a useful theoretical-methodological proposal for postgraduate thesis and researchers interested in evaluating the effect of an independent variable on the learning of the students of an institution. As an example, an instrument was designed to assess the learning achieved in the Spanish and mathematics subjects of students in the sixth grade of primary school through a test (EA6B3y4), previously worked in two specific phases: In the first, the model for evaluate the learning in the aforementioned subjects, the model for the design and the piloting of the test. In the second phase, the instrument is analyzed taking as reference the Classical Test Theory (TCT) to assess its attributes and proceed to calibration.

The school coexistence program as a strategy to develop harmonious relationships in schools

According to the OCDE (2012) Mexico is the country with the mayor index of school violence throughout Latin America, because of this, the Government through the Ministry of Public Education, has undertaken actions inclined to identify and eradicate these practices in the classrooms of the country, educational programs that regulate this condition have been established. The objective of this research is to analyze the influence of the knowledge of these programs in the educational practice of the teacher in situations of bullying in basic education. The program that was used was Statistics with the matrix correlation statistic; It was applied to a population of 135 teachers in the metropolitan area of the lagoon (ZML) with a representative sample of 100 teachers from a primary school school zone, Gómez Palacio Durango, the sample selected for the research work is probabilistic, and Simple random sampling was analyzed. The analysis of the data produced by the research shows that there is insufficient knowledge of the programs that contribute to the problems that affect school life within the institutions of primary education.

Economic cycles in the Mexican economy from 1982 to 2018

Given the facts and events in the Mexican economy, the present paper is about using economic history and economic cycles theory to review, analyze and find out the behavior we had had between 1982 to 2018; the purpose is giving explanation thru some facts such as the lose decade, the petroleum economic crisis, the joining to NAFTA, the December’s mistake, the economic recovery by the end of the millennium, the mortgage economic crisis and finally the causes and symptoms for the economic recession by the end of 2018.

Culture, creativity and eco-social responsibility. Towards a redefinition of a planetary ethic from eco-social responsibility

The paper develops the idea of creativity as one of the important characteristics of the anthropological singularity as an opening of new ideas and innovation as its practical concretion from the ethics of a situated and co-responsible freedom before others and the world. Creativity and innovation directly impact culture and the economy and this can be done in a socially responsible manner by enhancing the creativity of individuals and institutions. Social responsibility implies a global awareness that today articulates the responsibility of the leaders of public and private companies from justice, democracy and social inclusion (Ricardo, 2009, Vol. 8, No. 23). Competitiveness has to be rethought from creativity as an ethic of co-responsible freedom responding to human needs (Petra, 2009). From the ethics of freedom, competitiveness must not be at odds with the integral development of an equitable society. By virtue of the above we consider that in the information and knowledge era, the concepts of creativity and innovation and social responsibility are inseparable from each other and redefine the initiative of a new culture. It requires an entrepreneurial attitude with a social responsibility approach that contributes to the solution of social problems. The challenge is to promote a cultural change that enhances and internalizes proclivities towards the promotion of a new culture, education and social responsibility. In this preliminary approach we propose the term innovative social culture based on human development that produces synergy between ethics-social responsibility-creativity-social eco-development.

Approaching a pedagogical model of prison education

The Colegio de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos del Estado de Durango (CECyTED), offers high school studies based on two pedagogic schemes, the first one is a technique formation, by different schools CECyTED; the second one, a Median High Education of Distance, denominated Educacion Media Superior a Distancia (EMSaD) a general high school that capacitates as Educational workers. They oppress in 71 schools that covers the majority part the state of Durango. Since 1996, attends students of prison centers, based on the schemes EMSaD with a schoolar modality, has at this day near of 700 students in the data base, and hundreds of students graduated in all the prison centers in the State of Durango. In a national level, this is the unique subsystem that provides this service and modality in the prison centers in an international level in Latin America, is the unique model with regular courses in the prison centers. By the way, the pedagogical model is not designed for this context, but it works with a model of students of common scholar context, it says outside of the prison. This project is a part of a series of different works and successful experiences shared for some years in different Prison Centers in the State of Durango. This emphasizes in the creation of a Dirección de Educación Carcelaria, this constituted a line that make the opportunity to recognize the pedagogical precepts, administrative and infrastructure needs of the prison. The objetive is to show a padagogic model to educate in confinement contexts. The method used in this work is action-research, and the contribution is the potentiation and the aplication of the model in México´s jails and other countries.

Kamishibai educational: a tool as a common project

The creation of the collaborative team for the distinction of improvements in activities designed to impact teaching strategies, which will ultimately provide an increase in literacy, historical research and creativity for the acquisition of new knowledge through tools for planning, reading of discontinuous texts, and the visual expression of specific texts that give meaning to the systematization of processes that can be reproduced in different areas of knowledge of expected learning but with the constructivist approach to education delineated by the concept of General Systems Theory and the emphasis on humanism as a regulator of the emotions of human beings that intertwine in an educational community.

Strategies on mathematical thinking. A superior experience

The present article is a systematization of experiences derived from a workshop developed with higher education graduates working as teachers in basic or upper secondary education. The aim of the workshop was to strengthen the participants’ competences in the design of didactic strategies focused on the development of mathematical thinking for their own students. The workshop addressed three specific teaching components: planning skills, learning environments and teaching strategies. It is important to highlight that an expected workshop outcome was a book chapter written with experiences drawn from the implementation of the designed didactic strategies. The ambition was to publish a book with financial support of the Research an Innovation Center and the Faculty of Exact Sciences. None of these two last objectives were fulfilled. The paper is divided in four parts: diagnostic evaluation, workshop design and implementation, participants´ satisfaction and conclusions.