One of the first activities programmed by the Student Center was the talk: “Today's Journalism and Its Local Scope”, given by the editors of Semanario Tiempo, Víctor Hugo Villagrán, and Diario El Día, Eleazar Garviso.

In order to commemorate another year of life since its creation in 1993, the opening ceremony of the 25th anniversary activities was held to remember this important milestone within the University of La Serena.

Among the guests were the authorities of the ULS, such as the Academic Vice-Rector, Dr. Jorge Catalán, the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Dr. Luperfina Rojas, the Academic Secretary of the macro-unit, Mg. Carolina Rodríguez, the Director of the Department of Social Sciences, Hernán Cortés, the Director of the degree, Mg. Cristian Muñoz, academics, officials and students of all levels.

“It is quite significant for our School to be able to generate these instances, not only for the recreational and recreational activities that undoubtedly contribute a lot to the comprehensive training of our students, but there are also perspectives on our own professional performance in the scenario that we are currently experiencing. I think that the students have been very visionary in developing these activities, planning them and self-managing them,” indicated the School Director.

The person who had words of congratulations for ULS Journalism was the Dean of the FACSE. In addition to highlighting the quality of the professionals who graduated from this undergraduate program, she applauded the level of organization of the students. “This shows the great capacity they have to be able to link the external environment with the University, taking into account the exhibitors who will come, because they are not only worrying about recreational activities, but they are worrying about this very important part that is the training of the professional because the role that journalists have is quite important today, they are opinion leaders who contribute with truthfulness and ethics, a better way to build society,” said Dr. Luperfina Rojas.

On the occasion, the president of the CEC, Felipe Muñoz, and the vice president Fabián Varas also addressed the audience, who spoke about the activities to be carried out during the week, taking advantage of inviting all the students, teachers and officials of the course to Be part of this celebration. “The purpose of Career Week is mainly to commemorate the years of career life and generate spaces for relaxation to share, in addition to the different talks, forums and seminars that we have with the aim of reflecting on various topics that matter to society.” , indicated Muñoz. 

One of the first activities programmed by the Student Center was the talk: “Today's Journalism and Its Local Scope”, by the editors of Semanario Tiempo, Víctor Hugo Villagrán, and Diario El Día, Eleazar Garviso, who discussed together with the students the motivations that both have had within the journalistic field to be able to develop as professionals and the importance that the social role of the journalist has had in giving voice to sectors of society that are not heard. Also discussed was the way in which these media, with a large presence in the Coquimbo Region, have adapted to digital platforms to be in line with new technologies without abandoning the public that still prefers printed paper.

In this way, the CEC and the School Directorate coordinated a series of exhibitions, talks and seminars that aim to bring together the student community around social problems that concern students and national and regional events.

Source: School of Journalism

The activity was framed within the complementary activities carried out by the Diploma in Didactic Innovation in Initial Teacher Training, taught by the Integrated Management Unit of Pedagogies (UGIP).

Various instances of academic reflection were carried out in the premises of the study house, which were led by the international guest, Dr. Julio César Arboleda, director of the Ibero-American Network of Pedagogies (REDIPE), an organization in which teachers work collaboratively, educational institutions and agents from various countries.

In the first instance, Dr. Arboleda held the discussion "Development of educational research in Latin America: possibility of joint lines of research" in which the members of the UGIP team participated. The event allowed us to contextualize the work carried out by REDIPE, mainly in the area of ​​research, and also explained the educational model promoted by the organization.

Secondly, the expert gave the talk "Cognitive maps to enhance learning in Higher Education" aimed at ULS teachers and pedagogy students. On the occasion, he referred to the edifying meaning of pedagogy, and how we should move towards the educational understanding of knowledge to encourage critical and purposeful reflection in students.

“Thought is a human faculty, but it simply exists as potential, that is, all human beings are potentially carriers of thought, but the development of thought is another topic. Many people are very intelligent, but they do not know how to think, just as many people know how to teach, but they do not know how to educate (...) The international consensus that exists about educating refers to generating opportunities and capacities to train people; That is the most important thing about educating, that is why there are teachers who are good at teaching knowledge, but they do not train people or they think that teaching well is enough and that this is educating (...) Educating requires the act of teaching, but it is only a moment of the process” explained the academic.

In this way, the guest referred to the fact that the fundamental aspects of being able to educate fundamentally lie in training people so that they grow as individuals, both in their physical and psychological dimensions. “The function of educating is not only that of schools, but it is a function of other social institutions, such as the media, the family or the church (…) it should not only be done by the teacher and that is why the educational model of The school must be based on the function of educating, because that is the intrinsic property of the education process (...) In that sense, each of the members of the educational community have the purpose of educating and educating themselves, since the student many Sometimes it also educates the teacher and not only the teacher the student,” said Dr. Arboleda.

Thought as the engine of intelligence

Other concepts developed by the director of REDIPE was that of educating in intelligence and the importance of training through the development of thought. “Thinking is the potential that allows intelligence to be guided so that the individual can proceed in a better way in the corresponding scenario (…) So a challenge of the curricula is to help in the development of students' thinking, since Thinking is based above all on operations, on representations and on strategies to be able to strengthen the talents that we have in order to be able to make use of them and guide them in a better way (...) It is important that the workshops that we give to teachers are experiential, because there “We are embodying pedagogy in the classroom, because pedagogy has to do with the reflections that the school and the subjects make about their own pedagogical practice,” he noted.

For the rest, he stated that in pedagogy processes it is important to raise the difference that exists between understanding and understanding, and to do so one must resort to experience and demonstrate it through its application and use. “Pedagogy requires the teacher and the school to reflect on whether the teaching processes are being carried out in light of the function of educating, that is, the training of better people. Therefore, developing thinking must be accompanied by the function of educating. How to use those thoughts for edifying purposes. More than developing skills, we must develop understanding, use knowledge with an edifying meaning. Teaching for understanding implies that the teacher must also educate himself,” she emphasized.

Cognitive maps as an education strategy

Finally, the speaker led the talk “Creative thinking in the renewed curriculum: how to develop it in the classroom?” to the students of the Diploma in Didactic Innovation at the FIP, in which he presented some strategies to design workshops that mobilize understanding in students.

“A strategy to welcome the student is to take didactic pauses, that is why as teachers we must make maps of our classes, which are representations that make the general content present in certain categories. The Cognitive Map is the general representation of the territory of the information that we are going to deliver, we organize it in a structure. That is why it is important that teachers work on cognitive maps and that students also work on them. It is important that in methodologies classes they teach their students how to make these maps (...) Comprehensive edifying pedagogy suggests that it is important for teachers to make their class a laboratory for demonstrating knowledge and, above all, a laboratory for contributing to construction of better worlds”, concluded Dr. Arboleda.

Source: Integrated Pedagogy Management Unit - PMI FIP ULS1501 - CM ULS 1755

This activity took place within the framework of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the race and was attended by representatives from different companies.

The Business Academic Advisory Council was held in the facilities of the Enrique Molina Garmendia Campus, an event that was attended by the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Dr. Luperfina Rojas, the Director of the Department of Economics and Business Sciences, Mg. Alberto Hernández, representatives of the Advisory Council and students of the Audit career.

The activity included a presentation of the career by the Director of the Audit School, Mg. Patricia Cortés, where she showed the academic plan to the members of the Advisory Council, to later share ideas in search of improving the professional tools given to students during the course of the degree, which will seek to be implemented in the future.

On the occasion, the Dean of the FACSE was the one who welcomed the representatives of the Business Academic Advisory Council, highlighting the importance of their visit, especially at a time when a new anniversary of the Audit career is being celebrated. “We highlight the work that our Director has done, seeking to empower the public accountant who graduated from our University, who can stand out for his work in the workplace. That is why we have created this Advisory Council with the purpose of improving the training of our future professionals and, as a Faculty, we are very grateful for the joint work we have done."

The university highlighted once again the important work that the officials carry out daily.

A lunch was held at the Central Casino with which the University of La Serena celebrated Secretariat Day, a commemorative date dedicated to recognizing the valuable work carried out by these officials.

The activity was attended by the Rector(s), Dr. Jorge Catalán, the Vice-Rector for Economic and Administrative Affairs, Dr. Alejandra Torrejón, and the Director of Human Resources, Dr. Héctor Bugueño, who welcomed the secretaries of all the units of the house of studies and campus that came to this celebration.

The Director of Human Resources thanked and highlighted the work carried out daily by the University's secretaries. Later, Dr. Jorge Catalán joined in this greeting, highlighting the great commitment of these officials to the institution, ending with a toast in honor of them.

During the celebration, each of the secretaries received a gift. In addition, through a contest, various gifts were given.

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The event was organized by the Ibero-American Pedagogy Network (REDIPE) and by the Faculty of Education of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in which two professors from the ULS English Pedagogy program participated.

The main purpose of the Third International Education Symposium was to generate a space for exchange between students, managers, advisors and language teachers, as well as other areas and levels of education, who investigate and actively participate from education in the construction of more human spaces for life.

In this context, the event included the participation of two professors from the ULS English Pedagogy program. In the first instance, Professor Nidia Slomp presented the research project “Modeling Teaching Strategies in the Initial Training of English Teachers: Thinking with the Body”, and on the other hand, Professor Elvis Campos, presented the project “Strategies evaluations that develop learning of English language skills in seventh and eighth grade students from two schools in the Coquimbo Region - Chile", research that is currently being carried out together with Dr. Rodrigo Ruay, member of the Education Unit. Integrated Management of Pedagogies (UGIP).

Furthermore, both professors were invited to join as permanent members of the Network of Research Professors in Education and were distinguished as "REDIPE Ibero-American Academic Pair: For the construction of more human worlds." It should be noted that the REDIPE network They belong to prominent teachers and institutions united around studies, strengthening projects and research in pedagogy.

"We felt truly welcomed by researchers from many Ibero-American universities, ties of collaboration were created between the research presented and having been honored with the incorporation as academic peers of REDIPE was beyond our expectations. We leave with the mission of continuing our work and with the responsibility of responding to the community of researchers that it forms," ​​said Professor Campos at the end of the event in Sao Paulo.

This activity was organized by the Internal Training Coordination, of the Human Resources Directorate.

On Friday, November 30, the “Teamwork” training course carried out by the Directorate of Liaison with the Environment and Extension and the Department of Student Welfare ended, in which 28 University officials participated.

This course lasted 16 hours, ending with a recreational day at the “Los Hornitos del Molle” Tourist Center where the officials spent a pleasant day of recreational and recreational activities such as horseback riding, massages, etc.

This activity was organized by the Internal Training Coordination, of the Human Resources Directorate.