Symposiums, research projects and delivery of workshops and seminars are just some of the activities in which academics from the ULS undergraduate program have been protagonists. 

During the last few months, academics from the Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education career, attached to the Faculty of Humanities of the University of La Serena, have been part of various national and international activities. 

The participation of the teacher, Dr. Yanola González, coordinator of the course, in the Regional Symposium “La Reforma: quality in Early Childhood Education” stands out, held on November 18 and 19 and organized by the National Board of Kindergartens IV Region . Dr. González participated with the presentation “The Educational Reform and its challenges for the initial training of Early Childhood Educators.”

On the other hand, Dr. Yanola González, together with the academic Rossana Godoy, attended the National Conference for career leaders in Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education, organized by the Early Childhood Education Reform team of the Ministry of Education and held in Santiago on November 14th. The objective of this conference was to disseminate central background information on the level of Early Childhood Education and collect relevant information for updating the Curriculum Bases of Early Childhood Education.

Meanwhile, Dr. Silvia López de Maturana traveled to Pamplona and Cúcuta, Colombia, between November 12 and 16, where she gave seminars and workshops in the Master's Program in Education at the University of Pamplona. In addition, she participated as an external researcher in the Curriculum Renewal Project of the Faculty of Education of said University. 

In the same Colombian university and as part of the Master's in Education program, academic Camila Segura gave the Ethnographic Experience Workshop in the Fondecyt research project “Children's Educational Astonishments and Propensity to Learn.”

In turn, teacher Clara Tirado has participated in the CREDEULS research project of the “Training of Family Community Educational Development Agents of Companies” Program, Focus Group, held on Friday, November 14.

Link with the environment

Within the framework of linkage with the environment, with EXPLORA CONICYT, the institutional articulation seeks to promote learning in science in boys and girls in Early Childhood Education and strengthen the assessment by the educator of the development of scientific thinking skills and updating in the science technology axis.

In this context, a day of reflection was held that sought for the second consecutive year to promote critical reflection on pedagogical practices and update, this year, methodological and didactic approaches in the initiation of science and technology in Early Childhood Education, redefining the integration of learning according to social cultural contexts of reference. To this end, the workshops developed during the day took the educator to natural settings where they could experience learning in science and technology, as well as reflect on the perceptions and evaluations of the methodologies applied in their reference centers based on dialogues between student educators. This information collected in 2013 and 2014 will be systematized and will be made known in an article to be published during 2015, referring to the "Perceptions of preschool teachers regarding pedagogical practices in science and technology in the communes of La Serena and Coquimbo ". 

The project coordinator, Rossana Godoy, was present at these sessions, held on October 29.