The activity is organized by the ULS Graduate Monitoring Office and those interested can register at www.phoenix.cic.userena.cl or go directly to the meeting.

On Tuesday, December 04, at 15:00 p.m., in the Marta Vitar Auditorium room of the Isabel Bongard Campus, the talk will be held: “Characterization of the recruitment and selection processes of Directors for Chile in the Coquimbo Region ”, where the current situation of the appointment processes of directors of municipal educational establishments in the area will be addressed.

This activity will feature the presentation of the Regional Coordinator of the Central-North Zone of the Education Area of ​​Senior Public Management, Jimena Mendoza Inzunza.

The talk is aimed at students with a graduation profile, graduates and graduates of the pedagogy careers of the ULS, as well as the Directors and Coordinators of the pedagogies of the state campus.

The activity is organized by the Graduate Monitoring Office of the U. de La Serena and those interested can register at www.phoenix.cic.userena.cl or go directly to the meeting.

The instance is framed within the complementary spaces carried out by the graduates in “Didactic Innovation for the Initial Training of Teachers” and in “Development of Competencies for the Support of Internships in the Labor Context of the FID” taught by the Integrated Management Unit of Pedagogies (UGIP).

Under the need to delve into the topics addressed in the different modules of the UGIP diplomas and generate instances of pedagogical dialogues, various academic activities were developed in which two guests from the Alberto Hurtado University (UAH) participated, the Academic Vice-Rector, Dr. Pedro Milos, and the researcher Dr. Alejandra Morales.

In this context, and in the first instance, a discussion was held focused on the academic team of the UGIP and professionals from other institutional units, in which the challenges of university teaching and how it is presented in the field of didactics were addressed. and innovation. In addition, experiences were exchanged on the development of Institutional Improvement Projects in the area of ​​pedagogies of both houses of study.

“University teaching is a social practice that, unlike others, occurs in an institutional context, and this means that it has certain purposes. So we have two conditions that should help us, first the fact of having institutional support and consequently this makes it easier for us to define what our goals will be,” said the Academic Vice Chancellor of the UAH.

Likewise, two parallel talks and workshops were given aimed at the participating professors of the respective diploma courses, which were also attended by undergraduate students. One of them was carried out by Dr. Milos and was titled “Innovation in teaching by the trainer of trainers: Critical nodes and proposals for improvement”, focused on the relationship between teachers and students based on the teaching and learning processes.

“Innovating involves a certain clarity of what one wants to achieve, introducing a new element into a specific activity. When we talk about innovation, we are talking about an improvement or a change in which a new element is introduced that has to be implemented. If it does not produce an improvement, it is not an innovation, which must be effective and possible to disseminate (reproduce). So why innovate in the teaching of training of trainers? Well, to improve that object, processes and results,” explained Dr. Milos.

On the other hand, Dr. Morales focused her talk “Quality of trainers at the FID” in which she worked with the students of the Internships in Work Context diploma, on the definitions and models that are currently used in practical training.

“There is a view that says that theory is needed to understand practice, and another that states that the sooner the student does the practice, the sooner he will eliminate prejudices about his own training (…) From the theoretical point of view, "The practice is not a rational or conscious act, but rather it is developed according to an act of planning," said the teacher.

In this way, the activities allowed the development of spaces for updating and deepening in topics of university teaching, didactics, innovation and work practices both for the students of the two diplomas, as well as for the UGIP professionals who participate in related academic work. It should be noted that these updating activities are part of the actions of the Institutional Improvement Project (PMI FIP ULS1501) related to strengthening the training and updating of the institution's academic body, which must be consistent with the new curricular approach to ULS pedagogy courses that begin in 2019.

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

The former academic went into voluntary retirement in October of this year after 36 years at the institution.

The Faculty of Engineering reported that Dr. Jorge Oyarzún Muñoz, former academic of the Mining Engineering Department, who went into voluntary retirement last October, after 36 years at the institution, was appointed as Professor Emeritus of the University of La Serena, at the proposal of the Council of the Faculty of Engineering, which was accepted and presented by the Rector Avilés before the Honorable Board of Directors. This designation was ratified by Exempt Decree No. 458 of November 14, 2018.

“Dr. Oyarzún hopes to continue his academic activities, except in formal teaching, in particular scientific research in geological-mining and environmental matters, and the training of new researchers. Naturally, the writing of the Geoenvironmental briefs and the Geomining notes, of the monthly bulletins associated with the Environmental Civil Engineering and Mining Engineering careers respectively, will continue,” said the Dean, Dr. Mario Durán Lillo, who added “the Faculty of Engineering wishes Professor Oyarzún much success.”

Dr. Oyarzún is the author or co-author of digital books on geology, mineral exploration and mining-environment, freely available at www.aulados.net/GEMM. Additionally, he is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists and a member of the Mine Water Association.

The activities carried out are part of an ethnomusicological research project financed by the Music Fund of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage.

As one of the dissemination activities with the progress of the results of the ethnomusicological research project: “Turbans and Dances of Andacollo in their Music. Aesthetics and emotions of a popular faith", whose execution is in charge of professors Daniela Banderas and Lina Barrientos, from the Department of Music of the University of La Serena, two talks have been given to groups of high school students from the Region of Coquimbo.

The first, on Tuesday, October 23, was held at the Pedro Aguirre Cerda College of the Arts in La Antena, La Serena; and the second, on Tuesday, November 6, was offered to a group of students from the Pedro Regalado Videla Órdenes High School, at the Casa del Encuentro Ciudadano de Andacollo.

“The student body listened carefully to the historical background of the formation of the Religious Turban and Dance Dances that participate in the Festival of the Virgin of Our Lady of the Rosary of Andacollo since the mid-1752th century, specifically since 1798 the first ones and since XNUMX the seconds,” explained academic Lina Barrientos.

They were also able to appreciate the music of both dances, both current and old, thanks to illustrations through recordings that they were able to listen to and films that they were able to see from different periods, detecting changes or transformations that the Turban and Dance Dances have had, as well as aspects that have been preserved according to the tradition of family heirs of the Religious Dance, this in terms of their clothing and symbolic objects, such as the saber or sword; their dance, in relation to the steps and choreography; his music, changes in some melodic and rhythmic turns, without harmonic accompaniment due to ceasing to use the guitar and the lack of a series of musical instruments, such as the mandolin, the button accordion, the triangle.

Finally, the talks ended by addressing devotion, a relevant aspect, present in all the rituality of these dances, manifested in a deep faith of the promising adults, as well as projected in boys and girls who dance, sing and/or They play instruments as an expression of prayers and/or thanks to the Virgin.

In the talks, the students were accompanied by their respective teachers; However, in the talk offered in Andacollo, the mayor of the commune presented the event, while the teacher and director of the establishment, Lorena Araya, introduced the two academics and thanked them. Other professors and scholars of popular religiosity of Andacollo also attended. “The presence of Don Manuel González, coordinator of the Dance Dance No. 13 of Maitencillo and the presence of Don Juan Robles, head of the Dance Turbante No. 1 of La Serena, who is 80 years old and who stated that during 79 years old he dances to the Virgin of Andacollo, because his mother gave him to the Virgin at the age of one year,” said Lina Barrientos.

These activities have been able to be carried out thanks to the financing of the Fund for the Promotion of National Music of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage, 2018 competition, a project that has been hosted and sponsored by the Research and Development Directorate (DIDULS) dependent of the Vice-Rector for Research and Postgraduate Studies, and by the Department of Music of the University of La Serena.

The talk by Francesco Di Mille, from the Las Campanas Observatory, is free of charge and will take place this Friday, November 30, from 18:30 p.m., at the Gabriela Mistral Regional Library.

Everyone has heard of the Orion Milky Way and the zodiac constellations, but it is generally not well known where and when these names originated. For ancient civilizations, the sky was like a screen on which every night the heroes of classical mythology repeated their adventures.

Some of these amazing legends and how they were associated with the constellations will be addressed by the prominent astronomer Francesco Di Mille, from the Las Campanas Observatory, in a talk that is part of the second season of the cycle: “ASTROSERENA: exploring the Cosmos from the Coquimbo Region”, organized by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of La Serena and the Gemini Observatory, with the collaboration of the Gabriela Mistral Regional Library of La Serena.

The activity is free of charge and will take place this Friday, November 30, starting at 18:30 p.m., in the offices of the Regional Library.

More information in http://astroserena.weebly.com/.

The University of La Serena is the institution in charge of the event in this area, which involves actions in the three provinces.

A meeting with the Rector of the University of La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, was held by the students who will represent the Coquimbo Region in the XXX version of the National Mathematics Olympiad, which will be held on the 5th, 6th and 7th December in Santiago.

The students classified for the national final are: Ashly Dubó Carrasco, from Colegio Los Carrera (Major); Diego Tapia Godoy, from the German School (Minor); Ignacio Pinto Pinto, from the San José de La Serena School (Minor); Jean Paul Touret Hidalgo, from the German School (Major); Florencia Sauterel Martinac, from the Amalia Errázuriz School in Ovalle (Minor); Claudio Huerta Arancibia, from the Andrés Bello Pampa School (Minor); Rosario Marín Rojas, from the Sacred Hearts School (Minor); Felipe Bravo Foster, from the Conciliar Seminary College (Minor); Raimundio Gumucio Iglesias, from the Los Carrera School (Minor), and Tania Delgado Tabilo, from the Miguel de Cervantes School (Minor).    

The National Mathematics Olympiad is organized by the Chilean Mathematics Society uninterruptedly since 1989, and has the University of La Serena as the institution in charge of the event in this area under the coordination of the Director of Liaison with the Environment and Extension, Dr. Catalina Cvitanic, and the professional Carlos Carvajal.

Rector Avilés congratulated the students, expressing that “it is an honor for us to receive them. They are an example for many young people. I wish you the greatest success in this test that you will take in Santiago. It is, without a doubt, a great challenge, one of many that they will have to face in their lives, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, but that always leaves a lesson.”

Likewise, the highest university authority valued the vocation, dedication and effort of its professors, who accompanied the students in this event that took place in the Raúl Bitrán room of the ULS Central House.

In this regard, Dr. Catalina Cvitanic, highlighted that there are establishments that repeat themselves year after year in this instance, “and there is clearly an influence from the teachers, who are very committed to the Olympiad and to the training of young people. And in the case of new schools, it implies an effort by the teacher to guide his students and we hope that this can be maintained over time.”

For his part, the regional manager of the Olympiad, Carlos Carvajal, stated that every year this event “generates great expectations among students and teachers in the region. With this national activity we have managed, over the years, to encourage establishments, both municipal and private and subsidized private, to compete with students from all over Chile, acquiring an enriching experience by meeting other students who have the same concerns and thinking. about mathematics."

The Mathematics Olympiad aims to discover talented young people who are studying secondary and basic education, to offer them the opportunity to expand their scientific and cultural horizons.

Students from 8th grade to 4th grade from nearly 30 schools participated in the regional phase, which selects the best for the national grand final. The competition is divided into: Minor Level (under 15 years old) and Major Level (15 years and older).