The publication is part of the Monographs and Study Texts Series of the Research and Development Directorate of the University of La Serena.

The publication revives the experiences of the normalista teachers through several testimonies of those who were in charge of training and educating hundreds of young people in the Coquimbo Region. The book called "The pedagogical spirit in the biographical narrative of normal school teachers" was presented in an emotional ceremony held at the former La Serena Normal School and attended by authorities, academics, students, former normal school students and their families.

The academic from the ULS Department of Education, Dr. Silvia López de Maturana, was in charge of giving life to the significant work, and on the occasion she referred to the origin of the publication. “It is a book whose sole purpose is to pay tribute to the normal school teachers who dedicated most of their lives to educating, preserving the desire to learn and giving meaning to the act of teaching. My interest focused on listening with genuine interest to the stories of the teachers who studied at the Normal School, to transcend the sole professional career, that is, I was interested in knowing what surprised them, why they were sad, what made them happy, how they lived the day by day, what happened inside the School; everything that is not in books, but in the collective and oral memory that is transmitted from generation to generation. In that way, I was learning and enriching myself pedagogically,” she expressed.

The activity included the words of the normal teacher Susana Pacheco, who was in charge of writing the prologue of the book. "Our generation came out with the new conception of education, where the human mind is recognized as a living force and the child as a being that thinks, reasons, judges and has all the possible and necessary faculties (...), the education received At the Normal School of La Serena, he placed as his central axis the formation of the character of the future teacher and for this he accompanied her daily in the exercise of those practices that in daily life tend to awaken all the noble feelings", was part of the story of the teacher who experienced this valuable training for herself.

Likewise, on the occasion, the words of the historian of education and winner of the National Education Award (2015), Iván Núñez, who contextualized the subject of normal schools at the time when the teachers carried out their training, were projected. “Perhaps the profession of normalistas did not have the demands and complexities of today's university professions, but they were the profession closest to the needs of the majority of the popular world,” he asserted.

The ceremony was attended by the protagonists themselves who are part of the stories. One of them is Elba Carmona, who through poetic words expressed with great feeling the spirit of what it was like to be a normalista. The copy of the book was also given as a present to the representatives of the families of Isabel Barraza and Daphnne Castillo, and to teachers Cecilia Zúñiga, María Cristina Vallejos and Susana Pacheco, for being active collaborators of the publication.

It should be noted that this work also had the support of the fourth-year student of the Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education degree, Paola Araya, who transcribed part of the testimonies. “This task has been one of the most pleasant that I have had to perform, every afternoon in the teacher's office, I projected myself discovering how the educational process happened long ago and for me, as an educator in training, it was exciting to be able to see how the teachers still kept the pedagogical spirit over the years,” she said.

Finally, Professor María Paz Cerda delighted those present with the performance of a song from the time, culminating the launch with a tour of the Memory Room of the Former Normal School.

Source: Unit for the Integrated Management of Pedagogies (UGIP) | PMI FIP ULS1501 – CM ULS 1755

Students of Pedagogy in Differential Education from said institution participated in the event, who were able to ask questions and clarify doubts about inclusion and its different prisms.

In order to publicize the importance of inclusion and the measures that the University of La Serena is promoting, an informative talk was held on the “Comprehensive support program for ULS students within the framework of Inclusion and universal accessibility project ULS1799”, aimed at students of the Pedagogy in Differential Education degree at the Catholic University of Valparaíso.  

The event, led by academic Dr. Georgina García Escala and support professionals, Alejandra Galleguillos and Sandra Salazar, brought together more than 20 students, representatives of the UCV degree program. The objective of the talk was to provide information to the students about the objectives, characteristics and processes developed within the ULS1799 program, where all academic, local, regional, national and international entities are linked in favor of inclusion processes.

The talk held at the Irma Salas Library raised awareness among the group of students about the importance of their role as future differential educators in the development and promotion of inclusion processes, which facilitate the development of competencies for the development of the person in vocational training, in the labor and social fields.

The students expressed great interest in all the activities developed by the program, highlighting its comprehensiveness and coverage in all its processes.

On the occasion, lawyer Germán Solís presented “Orality in the second instance, in Chilean civil procedure.”

The Director of the Law degree at the University of La Serena, lawyer Germán Solís Godoy, was invited by the Judicial Branch of the Province of San Juan, Argentina, to present in the third module of the Diploma in Civil-Labor-Criminal Orality.

On the occasion, the academic presented "Orality in the second instance, in the Chilean civil procedure", an opportunity in which he shared with the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, Dr. Renée Rivero, and with the judge of the National Court of Criminal Appeals of Buenos Aires, Ricardo Matías Pinto.

The diploma course has the participation of speakers from the United States, Spain, Argentina and Chile, and is part of the reforms that are being developed both in Argentina in general and the Province of San Juan in particular, linked to the Justice 2020 Project of the trans-Andean nation. .

The Director of the Law program pointed out that “it was very gratifying that the Judicial Branch of the Province of San Juan has extended an invitation to a teacher from our study house, to make our experience known and in this way guide those responsible. beyond the Andes, to modify and implement the necessary reforms.”  

Solís Godoy added that on the occasion he took advantage of strengthening ties and deepening the Agreement that the Rector of the University of La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, signed this year with the Judicial Branch of the Province of San Juan.

On the occasion, CESFAM's service provision letter was released, in order to manage external support networks.

The Accompaniment team in Higher Education (AES) of the PACE University of La Serena Program participated in a training run by CESFAM Emilio Schaffhauser of the regional capital, an activity that is part of the operational plan, belonging to this year, along the lines from AES.

On the occasion, the letter of provision of services of said CESFAM was announced, in order to manage external support networks, within the framework of the articulation, monitoring and referral actions carried out with support networks, PACE higher education institutions , inside and outside the ULS.

In this context, the AES psychologist, Paula Vargas, specified that "it is valuable for our entire team to be able to create ties with other institutions that can provide specialized and more timely support to all of our students, and it is also vital for us as a team to receive updated information on the services that CESFAM can deliver”.

This training was in charge of the social worker, Solange Cerda, who explained and detailed the services that her institution provides. "Our center emphasizes promotion and prevention and is the real gateway to health, within it you can perform health control, chronic control, the Friendly Space program, the Healthy Youth program, regulation and fertility control, preventive gynecological control among others," he said.

Source: Press PACE ULS Program

At the regional level, the Olympics are organized by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of La Serena and the Alumni Center for Pedagogy in Mathematics and Physics.

Five high school students will represent the Coquimbo Region in the upcoming 2018 National Physics Olympics, which have become one of the main activities promoted by the Chilean Physics Society with the aim of contributing to the development of Physics in the country. .

These are the students Francisco Galeno Rojas, from the Andrés Bello School; Constanza Valenzuela Neira, from the San Joaquín School; Marija Westfall Gardner, from the Scuola Italiana; Nicolás García Moreno, from the San Joaquín School, and Jean Touret Hidalgo, from the Alemán School, who were selected after participating in the second stage of the Regional Physics Olympiads, organized by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of La Serena and the Alumni Center of the Pedagogy in Mathematics and Physics career.

The award ceremony for the regional version took place last Friday, October 26, at the ULS facilities, with the presence of the selected students (5 from each level), parents and guardians, directors and UTP heads of their schools. and special guests.

In this 2018 version, the first stage took place on Saturday, September 1 at the offices of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the state campus
and at the Amalia Errazuriz School in the city of Ovalle, who for the third consecutive year has provided its facilities for the event, where the participants from the Province of Limarí went. The selection of the students was carried out by taking a theoretical test for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade levels of the region.

Subsequently, on Saturday, October 6, a second theoretical test was administered to the young finalists of 2nd grade, and an experimental test was administered to the finalist students of 3rd and 4th grade.

The number of participants in this version reached a total of 228 students, belonging to 15 establishments in La Serena, Ovalle and Combarbalá.

Chilean Physics Olympiad

This Olympiad has been held in Chile for more than two decades and has counted on the efforts of countless members of the Chilean academic community, throughout the country. It is carried out every year thanks to the sustained support of universities and research centers.

The objectives of this activity are to generate a space for participation for all the students of our region, from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade levels; foster interest in Physics and promote its study; and select the delegation of students from the different communes that will represent the region in the National Olympics.

Source: Science Faculty

The proposal seeks to generate instances of reflection in those who train future teachers and thereby positively impact their practices.

The Teaching Improvement Unit (UMD) and the Integrated Management of Pedagogies Unit (UGIP) extend the invitation to participate in the first version of Teaching Dialogues in Initial Teacher Training (FIP).

The proposal seeks to generate instances of reflection in those who train future teachers and thereby positively impact their practices. The experience that the UMD has built from 2012 to date will contribute to the work of the “Evaluation of the FIP curricular redesign” subunit that the UGIP develops.

FIP Teaching Dialogues will develop its proposal from Wednesday, November 07th - on a fortnightly basis - between 15:00 p.m. and 16:30 p.m., in the UMD facilities (entrance side of the ULS Central Library), proposing as goals to achieve the systematization of experiences in the classroom through tools for the analysis of their practices such as logs, video recordings and feedback, among others.

To manage the activity, those who plan to attend are asked to complete the registration form. More information by email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..