The activity is part of the second version of “University for a day”, organized by the Integrated Management of Pedagogies Unit (UGIP), with the purpose of clarifying doubts about the teaching vocation and profession.

One of the great challenges and fears that high school students have is being able to define their professional vocation and correctly choose the career they will study in the coming years. It is not easy to define a future profession, even more so when external factors such as family, friends, financial stability, among others, intervene.

Taking these aspects into consideration, last year the UGIP launched the first “University for a Day” event, an occasion that brought together nearly 50 third and fourth year high school students, who through a live experience They had the opportunity to clarify their vocational doubts in relation to the teaching profession.

“This instance is a unique opportunity that not all students in the Coquimbo Region have, and it is not minor, because it marks an important milestone in their lives, which is coming to the facilities of the University of La Serena as teaching students. average and feel like a university student for a day; It is getting closer to what you are going to experience next year,” emphasized the Academic Vice-Rector, Dr. Alejandra Torrejón.

In this second version, there were more than sixty fourth-year high school students, from the communes of Ovalle, Vicuña, Coquimbo and La Serena, who expressed their interest in training as future teachers. Through the talk “Centennial Teachers: Who are they?” What will they do?" taught by Professor Dr. Hugo Tapia, they had a first approach to the teaching world.

Likewise, the head of Admission, Mg. Gonzalo Honores, and the teacher and coordinator of this day, Dr. Karla Campaña, provided relevant information about the pedagogical offer that the school has.

One of the most anticipated activities for the schoolchildren was participating in classes in the previously chosen pedagogy courses, being able to get to know the university routine and life in a real way.

“I was interested in participating in this activity to resolve some doubts about what pedagogy is and to learn more about the topic of education. I feel that education is something very important, because - after the family - it is the fundamental basis for human development, and being here allows us to get closer to the university world," said Javier Godoy, student at the Antonio Varas School in Vicuña.

For her part, Daniela González, student at the Gabriela Mistral School, who participated in Ped's classes. in Musical Education, she stated that she “wanted to know more about what I want to study and the facilities of the University. One of my purposes of studying pedagogy is to be able to transmit my knowledge to children.”

In this way, the participants toured the different campuses where pedagogy courses are taught, participating in different classes, and accompanied by a group of monitors made up of teachers in training, who shared their experiences as future educators.

Written by Daniela Ledezma, UGIP

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There are 210 tickets for the functions that will take place in the Aula Magna of the Ignacio Domeyko Campus, which will be distributed by the Student Federation of the university.

Within the framework of the La Serena Film Festival, FECILS 2019, the Rector of the University of La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, presented a total of 210 tickets to the Student Federation of the university - represented by its interim president, Sebastián Muñoz -, which will be distributed to the student community free of charge, in order to invite them to participate in the festival activities organized within the University.

These tickets correspond to 70 for each of the three performances that will be held in the Aula Magna of the Ignacio Domeyko Campus during the days of October 17 to 19 at 20:00 p.m., when the films “Ema,” “ Nae Pasaran” and “Araña”.

“The gift that the University gives us is spectacular, in order to encourage the culture of this festival to the university community. For us as a federation, it is very pleasant that the student is considered so that he can participate in this activity, even more so when part of the festival will be held in our facilities,” said the president of FEULS, Sebastián Muñoz.

While Rector Avilés highlighted this opportunity that is given to students to enjoy these films and documentaries “from a festival that has the active collaboration of our University, hosting various functions, the regional and national documentary categories, in addition to talks and a conversation.”

Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom

At the event, tutors and their students met with the aim of forging ties and thus continuing to strengthen and bond the students.

The team of the Support Program for Student Permanence, Performance, Leveling and Comprehensive Development, APRENDE ULS, in order to strengthen the relationship between students and peer-specialist tutors of the 40 majors of the University, held the first meeting of tutors 2019.

For the coordinator of the Follow-up and Monitoring area APRENDE ULS, Marcela Altamirano, “the meeting was a very significant event to contribute to strengthening the identity of specialist tutors and students accompanied by the program. Together, it constituted a space for socialization, in which all participants shared psychoeducational dynamics that allowed them to strengthen interpersonal relationships between them.”

In addition, the coordinator of Academic Liaison APRENDE PACE ULS, Loreto Garrido, said that “on the occasion, students who served as coordinating tutors during the first semester participated as speakers, who recounted their experiences in the program and also some perceptions that they gathered from the students, in the tutorial spaces; This generated a lot of attention from the attendees.”

The activity program was based on exposing the work procedure established for carrying out the tutorials, according to three areas: academic, psychoeducational, and monitoring and follow-up. Part of the APRENDE ULS program team and peer tutors who have had good accompaniment practices participated in these presentations.

In this context, Su-Ling Chea, APRENDE ULS coordinating tutor and student of the Journalism degree, stressed that “it was a very positive day, where we were able to share among ourselves the tutors and our tutees, learn in greater depth the work of the professionals that are part of the program; I was able to tell my experience and I think it is important for us as students to know the reality of being part of APRENDE ULS, to understand that it is a network that works in our University.”

Written by Daniel Aguayo, PACE ULS Program

Three ULS programs together with Territorio Coquimbo are carrying out research that seeks to generate strategies for pedagogical transformation in early childhood education. The project is carried out in three educational establishments in Coquimbo: Escuela Peñuelas, Escuela Presidente Aníbal Pinto Garmendia and Colegio Hellen Keller, which are part of the educational innovation network of Learning Communities in the region.

The careers of Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education, Engineering in Business Administration and Mining Engineering; teachers and students of the Department of Education, together with Territorio Coquimbo - the regional team of the Learning Communities project - are carrying out a research-oriented analysis of what happens in the educational spaces of the nursery levels of the schools that are part of the network, to contribute to the co-construction of improvements in pedagogical practices.

The Learning Communities proposal, based on Dialogical Learning, has been implemented for 4 years throughout Chile and today contributes to the education of more than 80 schools, colleges and high schools, of which 38 are in our region. Thus, it seeks to contribute effectively to the learning of students, adding new forms of work in the classroom and, mainly, assuming that education is a participatory phenomenon that is based on social interactions where its different aspects must be integrated. actors: students, parents, teachers and officials.

Since 2018, Territorio Coquimbo has implemented the idea of ​​educational transformation in more than 30 educational establishments in the region and positive results have been obtained both in the academic field and in the personal and collective training of those who make up the network of Communities of Schools. Learning. The proposal is executed free of charge, where establishments receive professional advice and support in their transformation process for 4 years.

Investigative work of the University and Territory of Coquimbo

The research was awarded through the competitive fund of the Directorate of Research and Development (DIDULS) in the Applied Pedagogical Research line and links three establishments of the network of Learning Communities schools: Escuela Peñuelas, Escuela Presidente Aníbal Pinto Garmendia and Colegio Hellen Keller, who will participate as study centers for one year.

In this way, the entire school community is involved in the analysis, as well as encouraging and strengthening the composition of research teams among University academics, students from different careers, organizations such as Territorio Coquimbo and various actors in the educational system. where an analysis of the problems associated with learning in the classroom is carried out.

Among the objectives are to identify the presence of emergent learning opportunities and cultural intelligence present in students - which represents one of the principles of Dialogical Learning - within the schools that are part of the research.

Also, there is a tendency to generate dialogic educational strategies for the best pedagogical use of the cultural knowledge of the kindergartens of the schools investigated and thus, to be able to advance jointly with the actors themselves towards curricular transformation, considering qualitative techniques and instruments. and the construction of a statistical base that supports decision making.

Desirée López de Maturana Luna, Coordinator of the Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education career, concluded that “this is one more opportunity to generate joint, situated and collaborative work, which makes early childhood education visible and rescues the cultural knowledge of children and girls, who, from their own childhoods, contribute to school knowledge, giving it meaning and depth.”

Written by Javiera Villalobos, journalist Territorio Coquimbo CdeA

Furthermore, during his stay in Brazil, the professor from the University of La Serena was invited to share knowledge with young people from the São Paulo State Music School and the Municipal Music School of said city.

With the purpose of providing new interpretive techniques in the performance of all students, the academic of the Music Department of the University of La Serena, Francisco Cárceles, held a series of personalized master classes for the students of the degree in Music, in the specialty of tuba and euphonium, from the Mozarteum Faculty of Sao Paulo, after the invitation made by the Brazilian institution.

The visit took place during the week of September 16 to 20, with the support of the Faculty of Humanities and the Academic Vice-Rector's Office, and allowed the academic not only to transmit his knowledge and experience to the students, but also to collect pedagogical practices, with the in order to perfect the work done by the ULS.

During his visit, the academic focused on establishing a study routine according to the level of each student and working on efficient participation in chamber groups, bands and/or orchestra.

“The opportunity to teach, deliver new knowledge and be a participant in the educational process of students from another country is an enriching experience. The objective of each class taught was successfully achieved and it fills me with motivation to be able to deliver new learning acquired with this experience to the students of the Music Department of our University,” indicated the academic regarding the experience.

The Music Department teacher was also invited to share knowledge with students from the São Paulo State Music School and the Municipal Music School of said city.

Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom

The meeting was held in Canada and Dr. Lizet Véliz Rojas had the opportunity to establish contact with Dr. Jean Watson, a world leader in the science of human care.

An outstanding participation in the Global Humanized Care Conference, Global Human Caring Conference, was had by the academic from the Department of Nursing of the University of La Serena, Dr. Lizet Véliz Rojas, who spoke at the event held in Canada, and which was led by Dr. Jean Watson, theorist and world leader in the science of care, who has formulated theoretical contributions in the areas of transcultural nursing and humanized care, ideas that today are of international scope.

The ULS researcher, who is also a 2019 National Nursing Award winner, spoke together with nurse Carolina Leiva about the experience of Cesfam Pedro Aguirre Cerda in the city of La Serena, in which Dr.'s theories have been implemented. Jean Watson to provide holistic care to the users who are treated at said family health center.

The exhibition received recognition from Watson, who showed his interest in the way his theory is being applied in this particular case in South America.

Additionally, Dr. Véliz was in charge of leading the working group on Intercultural Nursing, which addressed the problems of care in relation to indigenous peoples and international migrants in the international context.

It should be noted that Dr. Lizet Véliz held a meeting with Dr. Watson, where they discussed possible future lines of research in relation to humanized care and the way in which progress can be made in this sense in the Chilean reality.

Theorists Peggy Chin, Marcia Hills and Jante Quinn, among other international leaders in the care sciences, also participated in the meeting held at the University of Victoria in Canada.