With a talk on educational reactivation, UC Education inaugurates the Graduate Academic Year

The activity included a visit and presentation by Alejandra Arratia, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education, and a discussion panel moderated by the Dean of Education UC Alejandro Carrasco.

 

 

"Educational reactivation and the cycle to come" was the name of the conversation with which we went to the Inauguration of the UC Education Graduate Academic Year, held on April 20 at the Gabriela Mistral Auditorium.

The meeting included an exhibition by the undersecretary of Education of the Ministry of Education of Chile, Dr. Alejandra Arratia, and later included a discussion with UC academics paulo volante y Patricia guerrero, moderated by the dean of the Faculty of Education, Alejandro Carrasco.

Natalia Ávila, director of Postgraduate Education UC, delivered the words of welcome and greeted the Head of the PhD Program, Valeria Cabello; Head of the Master's Program, Verónica Santelices; Director of the Graduate School, Diego Cosmelli; Director of the Master's Project, Margarita Guarello and the postgraduate students and professors present.

This 2023 the Master of Education UC received 124 new students, reaching a total of 287 current students. The Doctorate in Education UC, for its part, welcomed 14, reaching a total of 70 current doctoral students.

It is in this virtuous interaction between expert professionals in the Master's degree and advanced researchers in the Doctorate –said Natalia Ávila– that “we build a diverse graduate community, attentive to the most pressing educational problems, to the contemporary challenges posed by education, but also to the future agenda and the long-term problems posed by the construction of an educational system. It is precisely to this dialogue that we have summoned them today”.

The isolation of the pandemic severely affected educational continuity, and today as a country we face a challenge that undoubtedly challenges us as a community of Postgraduate in Education UC, pointed out Natalia Ávila.

“As expert professionals and advanced researchers in education, we undoubtedly have a lot to reflect on and say. around how we face the socio-emotional gaps in learning and school engagement left by the pandemic. But in the same way, it is vitally important to think about the long-term global educational agenda. Once we have sustainably fixed the demands of the post-pandemic, What priorities should summon us? What directions should the public agenda take?”, he added.

These are some of the questions that the exhibition sought to address, which began with the presentation of the Undersecretary of Education, Alejandra Arratia.

Since January 2023 that the Ministry of Education launched the "Educational Reactivation Plan", which aims to mitigate and overcome the effects of two years of non-attendance in the Coexistence, mental health, learning and linking of students and their families with educational establishments, instance where the UC participates through the Advisory Council for Educational Reactivation.

Currently, Arratia explained, We are at a crucial and strategic moment in relation to the situation of the educational system and also of educational and public policies.

“Many times it is suggested that there is a certain tension between talking about educational reactivation, reactivating the educational system with all that that implies; and a more long-term reflection regarding this agenda in education. As if they were exclusive things that could not be discussed. I think it is very important to specify that they are necessarily complementary things, and that they go hand in hand.”, emphasized Undersecretary Arratia during her presentation.

In Chile, he assured, there has been evidence for a long time regarding the need for structural changes in the educational system. “Indeed, we had years of pandemic, but we are already in a more stable face-to-face situation. We cannot think that the challenge has to be to go back to 2019, as if nothing had happened. I think there is a trap there that is important to problematize. If we want to go back to the same thing we were doing before, we are going to have the same results that we had before, and we knew that this was not being relevant”, concluded Dr. Arratia.

Check out the photos of the event below.