Critical Conversations in Education: Voices and Experiences – Book Presentation by UV Researchers

• Critical conversations in education: voices and experiences gathering eInterviews with renowned researchers and professors from various fields of expertise
• Rebeca Elizabeth Contreras López, Rubén Darío Jiménez Rosado and César Augusto García Soberano coordinated the work

José Luis Coutlinc Soto

Photos: César Pisil Ramos

04/29/2024, Xalapa, Ver.- Researchers from the Universidad Veracruzana (UV) and the University of Xalapa (UX) compiled the experiences of distinguished academics from different fields of knowledge that gave life to the book Critical conversations in education: voices and experienceswhich aims to find out what it means to be critical, to criticize and to engage critically.

The work, edited by UX, is available in digital form and will soon be published physically. His presentation took place in the auditorium of the Legal Research Institute (IIJ) of the UV, as part of the commemorative activities of the 15th anniversary of the Center for Studies on Law, Globalization and Security.Cedegs) of this research house.

Rebeca Elizabeth Contreras López, researcher at the Cedegs and the coordinator of the book, says that the three expressions of criticism that are mentioned, in language pragmatics, regularly indicate a positive assessment of the views and actions of the person himself or others.

He pointed out that these expressions, as well as other uses and inflections of the concept of criticism, are generally understood by those who oppose tolerance, obedience, dogmatic or inertial.

The book Critical Dialogues in Education: Voices and Experiences was presented in the IIJ auditorium, in digital format.

The work aims to guide the research work to criteria that make it possible to work with coherence between the epistemic, methodological and empirical elements of social knowledge that achieve a critical vision.

He specified that the publication focuses on the philosophy of education, so the group participating in this analysis assumes that critical studies in education are part of the analysis. social.

One section of the book provides seven interviews with researchers and professors who, through their experiences, shape their own views on criticism.

There is also a theoretical reflection on the historiography of criticism in the direction chosen by the authors, whose main concern is how to introduce it both in the design of the curriculum and in the didactics of research training for postgraduate students .

Rebeca Contreras, Rubén Darío Jiménez and César Augusto García, coordinators of the book

Also participating in the gathering were: Rubén Darío Jiménez Rosado, who lives at the postdoctoral center. Cedegsand César Augusto García Soberano, researcher assigned to the UX.

Those interested can contact him in open access on the website Cedegs-UV (uv.mx/cedegs/general/libros-3/) and in the UX virtual library (ux.edu.mx/publicaciones-ux/).

The reporters of the publication were Manlio Fabio Casarín León and José Alfredo Zavaleta Betancourt, researchers at the IIJ and the Institute for Social-Historical Research (IIH-S), respectively.

Present at the presentation were: Jaqueline Jongitor Zamora, Secretary of Institutional Development; Marisol Luna Leal, General Counsel; Araceli Reyes López, director of the Faculty of Law; Ana Gamboa Rosas, coordinator of the Cedegs; Carlos García Méndez and Isabel Soberano de la Cruz, rector and rector emerita of the UX, respectively, and Arturo Chípuli Castillo, head of the IIJ.

Manlio Fabio Casarín León and José Alfredo Zavaleta Betancourt presented the work