Dr. Alberto Moreno, from the University of Valparaíso, and Desirée López de Maturana, from the ULS, will participate.

With the central objective of highlighting the importance that childhood has in contemporary biopolitical reflection and the problematization that arises from this position, the ULS, through its Department of Education and Interdisciplinary Center for Latin American Studies, organized the discussion “Biopolitics of Childhoods. Body and Education”, which will take place on Friday the 24th of this month, starting at 11:30 a.m., in the Multipurpose Room of the Isabel Bongard Campus.

The activity, which will begin with a conversation from the concept of Biopolitics, will begin a series of relevant questions that seek to understand childhood and that places children as an individual and as a population under an adult-centric perspective.

The discussion will be held with the special participation of Dr. in Educational Sciences from the University of Granada, Spain, and Master in Latin American Studies, Philosophy mention, Alberto Moreno Doña, who carries out teaching and research work in the area.

Also participating will be the teacher of the Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education program at the ULS and executive vice president, until 2018, of the National Board of Kindergartens, Desirée López de Maturana, who has a long career in early childhood education and has carried out numerous research related to play, cognitive development and learning.

They are joined by academics Rodrigo Castillo Cuadra (UCN) and José Antonio Olivares (ULS).

Students of Pedagogy from the Department of Education and ULS pedagogies, academics and the public interested in the topic are invited to the meeting.

Written by Patricia Catsro, DirCom

The rescue of the historical mining heritage began with the restoration of a topographical plan from 1860 of the Brillador mine, which would confirm the existence and use of steam engines inside the mine.

With the objective of rescuing the mining heritage of the Coquimbo Region, the Faculty of Engineering of the University of La Serena, through the Geology Area of ​​the Department of Mining Engineering, began the process of restoring the plan that served to project the Carlos Lambert's work at the Brillador mine. The plan has more than 150 years of history and is intended to be preserved for future generations.

The Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Dr. Engineer Mauricio Godoy, in relation to the restoration process, indicated that “we must take care and protect our heritage, this is a very important milestone since it is one of the first engineering plans in Chile, and is associated with mining, forming part of one of the greatest collected treasures that our University has.”

Thiare Ceballos, Coordinator(s) of the Geology Area, commented that “the idea of ​​geoheritage is to maintain the scientific wealth of geology within the community and everything that this involves, because it is part of the history and of our region. Following this line, we wanted to preserve our heritage with the first mining cartography in our country,” she concluded.

For his part, Frank Vicencio, professor of History and researcher, stressed that “the oldest mines began to use steam engines around 1860, while the Brillador mine, according to my hypothesis, was very modern for the time since "It began to use this type of equipment, long before other mining companies."

To carry out the restoration process, we have the support of Javier Gómez, professional conservator and restorer of the Archaeological Museum of La Serena, who is currently evaluating the conditions in which this plane is located, pointing out that “we are trying to intervene as little as possible. since it is a historical object and we are seeing what condition the plan is in and what conservation actions to carry out. We are taking photographs to carry out digital tests, the map has an enormous amount of information that even in the future we could separate the samples and make a complete exhibition.”

Written by María José Barraza, FIULS 2030 Project

During the activity, the ULS Kinesiology race had a free kinesiology care stand for those who participated in the run.

With the participation of nearly 200 people, the 2K Health Run was held in commemoration of Kinesiology Week, where the ULS was present with a stand for promotion, prevention and education in health and sports, run by of the Kinesiology degree at the University.

In the activity that took place in Coquimbo, the students of the race provided kinesiological care to the participants of the bullfight, which allowed them to enhance their professional skills.

The activity, organized by the College of Kinesiologists in conjunction with the Coquimbo Athletics Club, had a stage for the physical preparation of the runners, as well as awards to the first places and to the children who participated in the activity accompanying their families.

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Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom

In the talk, technical aspects of paints and their application in architectural works were presented to the students of the course.

Within the framework of the elective subject “Color in Architecture”, developed by Professor Andrés Valdés, a talk on painting in architecture was held at the ULS School of Architecture, which was given by professionals Yerko Castillo and Juan Jerez, technical and commercial representatives of the company Sherwin Williams Chile SA

In the talk, technical aspects of paints and their application in architectural works were presented to the students of the subject.

Regarding the initiative, professionals Castillo and Jerez expressed the importance of holding these meetings with the academy, and in particular with future architects, committing to holding more networking events.

For the Department of Architecture, these instances of linkage with the business environment are fundamental for the training of students, in tune with the strategic guidelines of the University on the subject.

We share an opinion column from the Doctor of Public Health, Dr. Paola Salas Rivas, Master in Epidemiology, teacher and researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of La Serena, who provides recommendations to protect eyesight during the total solar eclipse on the 2nd next July.

The column published this Friday, May 17 in the newspaper El Día, is part of the actions promoted by the ULS to explain this important astronomical phenomenon to the national and regional community.

See the column published by newspaper El Día here

Psychologists Valentina Jiménez, Francisca Olivares, Damarys Rivas, Eric Trujillo and David Cuadra, together with Dr. Pablo Castro, carried out a study that sought to describe and interpret subjective theories of preschool educators about family discipline.

The latest issue of the magazine Psychology and Education published an article written by graduates of the Psychology program at the University of La Serena together with an academic from the Department of Psychology, about early childhood education and family discipline.

The psychologists Valentina Jiménez, Francisca Olivares, Damarys Rivas, Eric Trujillo and David Cuadra together with Dr. Pablo Castro, carried out a study with preschool educators, which has been published in volume 56 number 1 of the magazine.

The article entitled “Preschool Teachers' Subjective Theories about Family Discipline in Eight Public and Private Schools in Chile”, presents the main results of a qualitative study, which sought to describe and interpret subjective theories of preschool teachers about family discipline.

“Episodic interviews were carried out with nursery educators from four educational establishments with a low socioeconomic level and four with a high socioeconomic level, belonging to two different age groups. The data were analyzed using some grounded theory procedures. The results show the educators' subjective theories about the way parents and/or caregivers currently exercise discipline, as well as the main factors that influence it. The discussion analyzes the impact of such subjective theories as regulators of their educational practices, considering their explanatory capacity and orientation to action,” explained Dr. Pablo Castro.

This item is available here