Introduction: This article analyzes the evolution of the Pharmacy Technologist as an essential part of the healthcare workforce in Colombia.Objective: To examine the influence of public policies and curricular innovation processes on their training.Materials and methods: A descriptive and documentary methodology was used, based on the analysis of current regulations and curricula...
Introduction: This research focused on analyzing student satisfaction and loyalty in the education sector.Objective: To propose a structural equation model that explains the relationship between attitude, perceived quality, and loyalty to the institution.Materials and methods: The methodology applied was quantitative, using surveys administered to a representative sample of...
Introduction: This research analyzed how teacher leadership influences student performance and motivation.Objective: To evaluate its direct impact on learning processes in secondary education.Materials and methods: The methodology was qualitative and descriptive, using observations and interviews conducted in a specific educational institution.Results: The results demonstrated...
Introduction: This article presents an innovative proposal linking technology with the literary expression of the deaf community.Objective: To propose videography as a method for exploring aesthetics and subjectivity in Colombian Sign Language literature.Materials and methods: An exploratory-qualitative methodology was used, analyzing various video productions created by deaf...
Introduction: Academic performance in critical areas such as mathematics is the focus of this article.Objective: To identify the sociodemographic and institutional factors that influence the performance of engineering students in the subject of Differential Calculus. Materials and methods: A quantitative, descriptive, and correlational study was conducted, analyzing students...
Introduction: This article addresses the persistence of gender bias in higher education.Objective: To propose critical reflections from a feminist epistemology and methodology to transform the current androcentric curriculum.Materials and methods: The methodology consisted of a theoretical and analytical review of the power structures that have historically rendered women's...
Introduction: This reflective article addresses the importance of peacebuilding within the university setting in the current Colombian context.Objective: To analyze curricular and community outreach experiences that foster a culture of peace.Materials and methods: The methodology employed consisted of a critical and reflective review of various institutional initiatives and their...
Given the social responsibility universities have for curriculum development, it must be adapted to the surrounding reality. In Cuba, for the first time, family mediation has found legal support as an alternative method of conflict resolution; however, the profile of family mediator is not included among the professional responsibilities of law graduates. Therefore, students are...
Since 2020, the Chilean Ministry of Education has incorporated the elective subject of Theater for students in their third and fourth years of high school. This study established a link between the subject of Theater and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), with the aim of understanding the perceptions and meaning that participants give to the development of SEL through their...
This article analyzes the social imaginaries surrounding environmental practices among students in cycle IV at the Santa Isabel Rural Educational Institution in Puerto Asís (Putumayo, Colombia). The study was conducted within a qualitative, critical, and interpretative paradigm, using a hermeneutic methodology based on the complementarity approach. Data were collected through in...
Saint Laura Montoya (Colombia, 1874-1949) had many facets to her life, including that of educator. In her written work, especially in *History of God's Mercies in a Soul: Autobiography of Saint Laura Montoya*, one can identify ideas and reflections that anticipate what would later be known as the liberation pedagogy movement in Latin America. A review of this work and other texts...
This study aimed to characterize the teaching profile of mathematics teachers who teach in English at bilingual institutions in the Department of Atlántico, Colombia. A qualitative methodology with a descriptive approach was applied, analyzing the syllabi of subjects related to English in mathematics teacher education programs. In addition, semi-structured interviews were...
This reflection article seeks to problematize the socially accepted and politically instrumentalized claim that education is a privileged tool for achieving peace in Colombia. For decades and given the Colombian armed conflict, solutions to the war have been sought, and responsibilities have been assigned that are sometimes not critically thought of. One of them is the call for...
The relationship between educational outcomes and violence remains an ongoing debate in educational policy. This paper seeks to establish whether significant spatial effects exist in the relationship between victimization risk-that is, the risk of human rights violations or international humanitarian law violations-and municipal educational outcomes in critical reading. The mean...
This qualitative research aimed to characterize the perceptions of engineering students in preparatory courses regarding the STEAM approach and its relationship to mathematics learning at an educational institution in Barranquilla, Atlántico (Colombia). A single-case study design was applied with a purposive sample of eight mechatronics, systems, and electronics engineering...
The modern abundance and prominence of data has led to the development of “data science” as a new field of research, along with a body of epistemological reflections on its foundations, methods, and consequences. This article is derived from the research exercise on the purposes of education where the analysis of knowledge provides a systematic dynamic and a critical review of...
The teaching of philosophy in Colombia has lost relevance in secondary education due to overly theoretical pedagogical approaches that overlook students’ interests and the practical meaning of philosophical knowledge. This study analyzed the evolution and didactic strategies applied between 1994 and 2024 through a qualitative documentary review based on the PRISMA protocol...
The paper is a narrative and analytical reconstruction of the formative experience: printing in memory, carried out during 2019 at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, with members of the Mafapo organization, that is, mothers and sisters of young victims of State violence; what the Special Jurisdiction for Peace has called: Murders and forced disappearances presented as...
Teacher jargon is a sociolinguistic phenomenon in constant transformation. Since 2020, the technological mediation that emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified these changes, generating new forms of pedagogical communication. This article analyzes the evolution of teacher jargon in a public school located in the municipality of Soacha (Cundinamarca), through semi...
This article presents an educational experience based on the implementation of the flipped classroom strategy as an innovative pedagogical tool in the Financial Administration distance learning program at the University of Quindío (Colombia). This initiative, framed within the Proyecto Educativo Uniquindiano, aimed to strengthen academic support and contribute to the achievement...
This research addresses the application of the Six Sigma methodology in an integrated production system with the aim of improving its performance. This paper highlights the importance of optimizing production processes to reduce defects and increase operational efficiency in a competitive environment. The main objective is to analyze how Six Sigma can reduce defects per million...
From the fall of the great paradigms arises the “shock of reality” (“astonishment” at “the indescribable horror, not the beauty, that marks contemporary experience). The action that produces war, terror and horror, in addition to other forms of dispossession of life, which, although it may seem senseless, demand their explanation, more or less plausible, through the revision of...
The purpose of this research article was to understand the dynamics of the imaginary social meanings of educational quality from the perspective of social actors in a school in the city of Manizales. The theory of social imaginaries was taken as a reference as a theoretical and epistemological foundation, responding to the nature of the object of study. The approach and design...
The purpose of this research article was to understand the dynamics of the imaginary social meanings of educational quality from the perspective of social actors in a school in the city of Manizales. The theory of social imaginaries was taken as a reference as a theoretical and epistemological foundation, responding to the nature of the object of study. The approach and design...
Reading literature related to legal topics fosters essential argumentative and hermeneutical skills in lawyers. It develops competencies such as the understanding of historical moments, the ability to analyze literary and legal texts, and writing and spelling skills. In addition, it expands knowledge about political, economic, legal and social powers, allowing lawyers to...