Maestría en educación rural centroamericana: hacia un modelo pedagógico flexible

Program in Rural Education” is presented to the national and international community as a high level graduate program, whose purpose is to improve the quality of formal and informal educational processes within the area through an innovative pedagogical model that includes itinerancy along the isthmus, as well as in site and distance learning with a virtual component. Furthermore, this program bases its practice on the development of a flexible model, on inclusiveness and also on a differentiated methodological and evaluative proposal that recovers the knowledge produced in every country around de issue of rural education.

Análisis de necesidades educativas curriculares en la educación primaria dirigida a niños (as) nicaragüenses migrantes en Costa Rica

The intention of the article is to announce the needs of a curriculum Identified in the Nicaraguan migrant children that study at the rural primary school “Los Angeles” in the location of Los Chiles Costa Rica. They actually are in an exclusion, discrimination and indifference situation from the local institutions. There are strong obstacles for the effective learning and development of positive attitudes, lack of responsible participation of the educative community; the methodological procedure used at the classrooms and the curricular adjustment at the pedagogical official model from Costa Rica, divorced those, from the sociocultural conditions of the children, their families and the rural community where they live. This situation affects the children motivation, for not achieve educational goals, the few that register at primary school doesn´t end it and those that complete it have academic difficulties to enter at high school. The time has come for the educational systems from both countries –Nicaragua and Costa Rica– to consider joint educational strategies that can give an answer to the educational curricular needs that the Nicaraguan migrant children presents at the rural schools in Costa Rica.

Realidad de las comunidades rurales de Costa Rica

The purpose of this article is to reflect about current reality experimented in rural communities in our country in order to look for solutions to their problems that allow them to reach a better quality of life. Analyses are made from different perspectives. Within this context, we take into account the role that rural communities have in the development of a country as well as the part education plays in the fight for the achievement of a better quality of life.

La participación en las comunidades rurales: abriendo espacios para la participación desde la escuela

The article id based on the participation in the country school, It goes over the national and international legislation, is important to stand out the fact that this article establish questions that the personal teaching will affront if he wants to open a space to participate in country school. Besides it includes and develops the share capital concept and relate it whit the educational theme.

La participación en el aula escolar rural: un reto para la transformación

This work analyses the participation as a way to exert the right to education, as a mean to democratize the learning process and as a channel to achieve pertinence in the educational process. It assumes that parents, students and other members of the community have to be near the school and the classroom not only to collaborate with the tasks traditionally assigned to them but also to develop a new way of participation that involves a construction process of the learning process. To achieve this purpose, the authors enunciate different strategies, useful to the get school and community together.

De la instrucción a la literalización

In this paper about Psychology of Education, I propose to distinguish the educational work centered in the instruction-evaluation relationship, which, following the structuralist Barthes, I’m understanding as an education based on critical truthfulness, from an educational work trying to recover all language possibilities, understood as literalization, that is, the appropriation by the educational subjects of a logos that the educational instruction-evaluation has robbed them of..

Diversidad estudiantil en el 7° año de la educación secundaria pública costarricense

The Proyecto Perfiles, Dinámicas y Desafíos de la Educación Costarricense executed by CIDE at Universidad Nacional researches the topic of students’ diversity and equality in the seventh grade of Costa Rican Secondary Public Schools. The article includes recommendations given by seventh grade teachers from different regions of the country to address diversity in the seventh grade classroom.

Una mirada al fenómeno de la violencia escolar en Costa Rica

In the current context of education, parents, students, teachers, media and other sectors of Costa Rican society, express concern about the problem of school violence, a social phenomenon that has been increasing in recent years. Its manifestations are perceived by means of abuse behavior, intimidation, verbal or physical abuse among youth, which are constructed through cultural practices. Therefore, to understand this problem, reflection about possible causes is in order, taking into account the context in which social interaction is developed in each school. Some of the manifestations of violence are rooted in the family, the community, the imitation of the behavioral patterns, and the influence of mass media. Moreover, these behaviors are reinforced by the current curriculum model, generating resistance to institutional rules.

Componentes teóricos para la comprensión de la pedagogía intercultural como práctica docente

Nowadays, a topic that arises in the educational domain as an answer to the demands of an increasingly diverse society which also demands processes of inclusion is, without a doubt, the concept of interculturalism. There are several conceptual approaches that are far from creating a pedagogy of interculturalism, specially when interculturalism is valued as a philosophy, which requires the development of a new teacher who is not only capable of recycling him/herself but who is also aware of the paradigmatic changes that interculturalism demands. The article presents an approach to the theoretical components for the understanding of intercultural pedagogy as an educational practice. It begins with a brief presentation of the current educational system, followed by the interpretation of human rights as a fundamental issue of human diversity, and certain approaches and clarification models for interculturalism in elementary school. Finally, the article briefly discusses some of teacher’s intercultural competencies in the face of such diversity.

Multiplicando esfuerzos para fortalecer la familia desde la orientación

The proposal includes the systematization of a training experience where 35 teaching and administrative officials participated. They came from 9 elementary schools located in marginal communities, developed by a team of two school counselors whose main purpose was to encourage among the participants the development of skills that will let them design and apply activities in the field of “parents’ school”. Thus, an educational counseling proposal has been modeled in order to reach greater coverage and efficiency of the counseling work with families being done from within the school. Moreover, what’s being sought is the promotion of healthy family relationships that contribute to the family’s wholeness and well being and therefore to the appropriate academic and social development of their children.

Un estudio de caso de la estrategia administrativa basada en comités

The theory of curricular administration is applied in order to explain the use of the strategy of management committees in institutions of elementary and high school education. A case study is carried out in an educational institution of the metropolitan area; an institution known for organizational features that are common in a national reality that affects the malpractice of this strategy. It is established within the case study, some of causes of its abuse in the particular context of the educational institution “Unidad Pedagógica José Rafael Araya Rojas” located in the “Tibás, La Florida” community and in the light of these results, some recommendations are suggested in order to improve the use of the administrative strategy based on committees.

Proyecto: educación en línea

This is a presentation of a proposal for authentic application of the basic criteria and elements to create projects related to on line education in Centers of Superior Education. It provides a guide in a useful summary format, which explains the main aspects in the creation of the project from the planning stage to the final stage supervision. It is supported by a range of specialists who were involved in the process including experts in knowledge, graphic design, system programmers, and organizational leaders.

Utopía universitaria

Universities are facing numerous changes, dilemmas and challenges in this new millennium, and it must get ready to face them by keeping a utopian thought. In this context all the actors of the university must insist on the right to envision and dream the future. A utopian thought allows us to imagine a university that is different, one that can guide our activities as teachers, students, administrative personnel and authorities with a view to achieve the university dreamed by all of us. This has motivated us to state our university utopia as a contribution to the reflection on the topics that involve the university.

La identidad nacional en tiempos de globalización

The national identity is a historical and geographical process; it is also dynamic and it is constantly transforming, in other words it is: a subject of change. It is constructed by individuals and different social groups who are born or live in a territory with a homogenizing ideological discourse and a reproducer of an imaginary national and, moreover, the cultural influence is expressed by the interrelationships among other countries, which have been accelerated by the phenomenon of globalization. This last aspect has a profound impact not only in the economic field, but also when sharing information, ideas, values and behaviors that are assimilated by people through behaviors, symbols and meanings that are related to the imitation of foreign cultural models. But there is one point in common in the context of this essay and it is to understand that we are in an evolutionary, dynamic and complex process that is part of the socialization processes that link the daily practices of individuals, through the diversity and cultural exchange.

El apoyo familiar en el proceso de integración educativa de estudiantes con necesidades educativas en condición de discapacidad

In the process of socialization, the family has a fundamental role in the care and raising of the children, but principally, in the transmission of knowledge, values and customs that allow them to adapt to the society as active and productive individuals. In the last years, the Costa Rican educational system has experienced significant changes, due to the processes of students’ school integration, who present educational needs, because they need specialized supports and different resources for their formation and integral development. Thus, a concern was generated so that the familiar support is investigating in the process of students’ school integration, who are the ones who receive significant curricular adaptations in the public schools, and for instance, it was necessary to determine the kind of supports that are provided to the members of the family, as well as, the ways in which these supports can benefit the process of school integration.