Políticas educativas en contexto. Una experiencia de investigación y escritura académica en proceso de formación doctoral.

Abstract

The present publication of the Doctorate in Education on "Educational Policies in the Context of a Research Experience" is the result of the Seminar on "Society and Educational Policies" given by Dr. Horacio Ademar Ferreyra and the Publications Department of the Catholic University of Argentina. USTA's journal Hallazgos will present to the scientific community twenty articles written by the first cohort of doctoral students in Education; this dissemination fills the Program with pride, since it will become the first publication of its kind in the world. Program, since it will become the first of many writings that these successful students have produced. The essays can be approached from a systemic view that allows identifying the interdisciplinary nature of the scientific knowledge of the different disciplines handled in each of the writings, in order to contribute to the investigative knowledge of the doctoral training process. The studies are categorized into three major themes: policies, humanistic approach; education-challenges, and quality of education. The first theme presents the analysis of educational policies from global and humanistic frameworks, focusing on an economic discourse that shows the influence of the different socio-economic currents, generating fissures in the educational and social processes of a country like Colombia. Based on the previous reflection, the ground is sown to establish critical positions in front of a topic that controverts education, as is the case of human rights: why do industrialized societies in charge of perfecting institutions hinder the fulfillment of human rights in societies, making them less equitable and productive at an intellectual level? This approach leads to weigh the quality measures and projects that are carried out to identify the shortcomings and the impact of an education that is on the way to quality, but without eventually reaching it. Under the aspect of quality in education, contributions are made from a- the experiences lived by academic institutions in Colombia, using models such as cooperativism and integral educational policies, among others, generating quality of life for those involved and resulting in a Latin American population that is in search of better and better conditions, but are increasingly centralized in industrialized headquarters. In order to achieve educational quality, we start from the social challenges that generate interaction with young people, when forming new subjects in the social order, seeking to behavioral construction that breaks with indifference to change. For this reason, the intervention must start from the curriculum that reaches the schools. Subsequently, and following the outline of educational quality, the role of the educator and his training, not only intellectual but also affective, in such a way as to reestablish the social importance that the teacher has within a community, since it is he who transcends in several generations. From here, the projection of the essays presented in this issue are directed towards higher education and the deliberate questioning of the Colombian context: its advances, its participation in organizations and university education guilds, its revolutions, its successes and crossroads; the history of the university with an appreciation of the present and a contrast between what it has proposed and what it will obtain according to the political strength experienced in the last decades. Finally, revisions and formulations are proposed from business, management, trade union points of view and with dyes of transforming revolutions in which their administrative results are observable in contemporary organizations, which point out competition as a minimum of efficiency, achieving organizational structures that can be submitted to international evaluations, to be lasting and of quality. Finally, the Doctorate in Education of the Universidad Santo Tomás thanks the editor of the journal Hallazgos, of the Research Unit belonging to the same University, for the opportunity to express, in a broad manner, the criteria established by Colombian education in several aspects and dimensions that every teacher at some point in his or her work has questioned on Colombian soil.