The event brought together more than 90 national and international attendees.

For 3 days, the IV Research-Lives Workshop was held at the University of La Serena, a meeting organized by the Research-Lives Network (RIV) in conjunction with the General Area of ​​Rights and Duties for Comprehensive Training of the ULS.

The activities took place between the towns of El Molle and El Hinojal, and also in the Plaza Buenos Aires de La Serena and the ULS Amphitheater. The Mg. Cristian Blanco, Coordinator of the General Area of ​​Coordination of Rights and Duties for Comprehensive Training (AGDDFI), the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Dr. Cristián Noemi, and the Director of the Department of Education, Dr. Héctor Bugüeño, among other guests .

Around 90 people attended the meeting, including academics, professors, ULS students, as well as students and teachers from the Santa Bernadita School in Pedregal del Limarí.

The organization of the meeting was led by Dr. Rossana Godoy, attached to the Department of Education, and AGDDFI, by Dr. Francisco Ramallo, from the National University of Mar del Plata, representatives of the Network for Chile and Argentina, respectively.

Dr. Rossana Godoy, general coordinator of the meeting, referred to its importance. “This instance is an opportunity for all its participants to connect with life itself in a comprehensive way. Both academics from different disciplines in our national and international territory, as well as school teachers, students of Basic General Education and boys and girls, meet to value narratives, experiences, knowledge, memories, feelings, symbolisms, inquiries that invite us to recover the care, trust, the value of trajectories and the development of learning towards other possible educations. For a joyful, hopeful, critical reflective education, in constant and sensitive transformation in common-unity. It is an invitation to its participants to recover the experiences of research, training and action developed in their different educational and academic communities, in order to recognize: In what way does their research approach life itself?, and In what way do their “Communities learn by researching in their own territories?” he expressed.

On the other hand, Francisco Ramallo, CONICET researcher and professor at the National University of Mar de la Plata, pointed out that this is the IV workshop that they have been carrying out between Chile, Brazil and Argentina with different educators, researchers, artists and environmentalists, giving an account of: “the importance of these meetings that highlight the community value and that allow us to feel like a community beyond the mountain range or geographical or political limits as well. We feel part of the same space that is that of a Latin American academy, an academy from the south that opens to the world and that not only consumes methods and techniques that come from the north, but also produces its own, valuing not only scientific forms. , but of life.”

The student Abigail Ramirez, of Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education and member of the ULS Research Seedbed, a direct collaborator in the organization of the event, wanted to share her experience, pointing out that “they are meetings that, as their name indicates, allow us to meet in all areas. . We learn about the work of others, we learn from it and extract different ideas that allow us to create new instances in which what we gathered from the conversation with our colleagues is promoted. It greatly boosts our professional training because it shows us other perspectives outside the academic tradition and gives us other orientations for our future teachers. But above all the benefits, there is the ability to meet different people who allow us to grow, know and be greatly inspired to make a contribution, we build together for a new possible education.”

Featured project

During the meeting, the Santa Bernadita de Pedregal School project was discussed, which deals with the experience of caring for emotions and rural life of a group of students. Using an innovative methodology created by teacher Macarena Fuentes, in which the care of emotions in the classroom is prioritized, the students shared their experiences.

It is a series of comprehensive development strategies based on a living pedagogy, which opens space for students to receive psycho-emotional support when necessary. Through the implementation of strategies such as the implementation of an emotional containment room, self-regulation resources, classroom artifacts for the expression of emotions, doll knitting to encourage the expression of their emotions, among others, it becomes clear how Rural education also advances not only academically, but also in socio-emotional aspects for the comprehensive formation of a life that values ​​its culture and territorial practices.

The Research-Life Network recognizes the indivisibility between the field of research and life, in education it brings the possibility of recognizing ourselves as inseparable from the knowledge and knowledge that emanates from the territories; Thus, this IV Workshop seeks in an articulated way among its participants to share the different ways of inhabiting research in educational communities that listen, dialogue and learn in common-unity for a good life.

Written by Paz Montecinos, DirCom