The activity included the participation of professionals from the U. Mesoamericana (Mexico), the UNTREF (Argentina) and the ULS, who discussed the tasks and challenges that exist in higher education in the current Latin American context.

With the aim of generating a space for dialogue, the Department of Education of the University of La Serena held the videoconference “Tasks and Challenges of Higher Education in the Latin American Context “Contributions to Decolonize Universities””, which included the presentations by the academic of the Mesoamerican University of San Cristóbal (Mexico), Dr. Víctor Avendaño, the academic of the National University of Tres de Febrero (Argentina), Dr. José Tast and the Director of the Department of Education of the ULS, Dr. Jaime Montes.

During the activity, the academics will point out different aspects of higher education, contextualized to the reality of each country, seeking in this way to generate a space for debate, dialogue and reflection with the attendees, who actively participated in it.

“The most important universities in the world are open institutions, linked to other academic experiences in various places around the world. In this way, the intellectual, spiritual and academic background of the university is enriched through the exchange of experiences,” said Dr. Jaime Montes, regarding the importance of generating spaces for dialogue with academics from foreign universities.

For his part, for Dr. Víctor Avendaño, it is relevant to have this type of spaces within academic life, which allow critical thinking to form in the university community. “Academic life should be full of events like this, where debate is generated, since a higher education institution must provoke critical thinking in its students, and I am extremely convinced that this type of spaces gives richness to university education” .

Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom