The Pedagogy degree in Early Childhood Education at the University of La Serena inaugurated the academic year with the conference: "Childhood education: learning, development and brain plasticity" by psychomotor specialist, neuroscience specialist Dr. © Jorge Hirsch, director of the Institute of Neurorehabilitation of San Juan, Argentina. Professor Hirsch has been a visiting professor at various universities in Latin America and stands out for his studies in neuroscience and neurorehabilitation of children and young people as various pathologies that inhibit their development.

The conference focused on the characteristics of the brain and the teaching role in the first years of life as part of the epigenetic factors of development.

The event was attended by students of all levels of the major and others, as well as ULS academics and professionals from schools and institutions that care for and educate early childhood.

In addition, Professor Hirsch was one of the speakers at the International Seminar ''Inclusion in life and school: pedagogy with a human sense", organized and sponsored by CREDEULS and co-organized by the Early Childhood Education program with the collaboration of the Semillero de Investigation of the same area, which took place on Friday, March 28, 2014.