Researchers explained the current educational approach

• in the book Balance of higher education policies in the fourth transformation (2018-2024)

• It was donated to the South Campus university community

• It was achieved thanks to the funding of the General Directorate of Academic Development and Educational Innovation of the UV

Claudia Peralta Vazquez

Photos: José Miguel Hernández Platas

23/08/2024, Xalapa, Ver.- the book Balance of higher education policies in the fourth transformation (2018-2024) It brings together ideas and reflections from researchers and scholars on the subject, on what has been done and what has not been done in the current six year term in educational matters.

This exercise, coordinated by Romualdo López Zárate, from the Sociology Department of the Department of Social Sciences at the Azcapotzalco Unit of the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), and Miguel Ángel Casillas Alvarado, researcher at the Center for Research and Innovation in Higher Education (CIIES). ) of the Universidad Veracruzana (UV), to be given to the university community of the South Campus, where this last academic entity is located.

Casillas Alvarado thanked this university for the publication of the book that was financed through the General Directorate of Academic Development and Educational Innovation, as part of the support program for academic organizations, since it includes works at least four of them.

In the resources of the Multimodal Care Center of the Open Education System (SEA), the work stood out for its free and accessible format, as well as its content, which already has positive reviews received from readers in Spain and Latin America.

In his speech, López Zárate pointed out that there are not many books that have addressed the challenges of higher education in this six-year term.

For this particular case, most of the authors share opinions regarding the management of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, against and in favor.

Regarding its publication, he said that one of the promises made during the adoption of the project was that it would be published before the beginning of the next federal administration, to familiarize new officials and students and academics who are interested in it. developing and dealing with the project. subject matter.

The university community listened to the reflections of UV researchers and other institutions about the work

Directly, from their point of view, one of the main successes of the 4T was the General Law for Higher Education, because since 1978 there was only one completely inactive document.

The researcher invited people to read the book, an important source for documenting, criticizing and getting an insight into the activities that were done.

In his speech, Ernesto Treviño Ronzón, from the Social History Research Institute (IIH-S), recognized the work of the authors interested in higher education who participated through their texts with different ideas, problems, research objects , and from different ideological positions.

“It is an interesting work, made in four sections and 17 chapters where works of different aspects, size and scope are combined. “

The issue is still controversial, he said, because the 4T regime has been popular and at the same time created controversy. In that sense, it is not easy to build communication between such diverse roles.

When he expressed his views on the work, Favio Fuentes Navarro, from the Research Department of the Pedagogical University of Veracruzana, emphasized that it is an inevitable reference to avoid the errors mentioned and argued there.

“I cannot imagine the next heads of the Ministry of Education in Veracruz and Public Education without reading and reviewing this work, without their analysis and appropriate advice about the problems discussed here.”