Revista Holón

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2025-09-17T22:59:07+00:00

Family participation in learning situations from a psychopedagogical perspective

2025-09-11T22:00:22+00:00

This research article was written by a team composed of teachers from each of the schools studied, within the context of the participants' master's degree programs. It proposes a psychopedagogical intervention aimed at promoting the active participation of families in the educational process, with special emphasis on vulnerable school contexts. The problem addresses the experience of three Mexican educational institutions: an urban kindergarten, a semi-urban elementary school, and a Multiple Care Center (CAM) in a rural area. The proposal is theoretically framed within ecological models of development, the humanistic approach, and sociocultural theory, and includes context-specific activities, supported by qualitative diagnoses, with the goal of strengthening the school-family-community bond. The need to apply the principle of prevention in educational practice is argued, from the perspective proposed by Psychopedagogy, to develop interventions that allow for the integration of preventive training strategies, highlighting their flexibility to adapt to diverse educational realities. It is concluded that a planned psychopedagogical intervention with intention and a theoretical foundation is key to promoting inclusion, socio-emotional development, and improving school learning.

The Use of Digital Tools in Education

2025-09-11T22:25:50+00:00

Technology has evolved educational systems. Both teachers and students have access to digital educational tools that allow them to improve and transform the teaching-learning process. This research article, based on a qualitative analysis, assesses some of the educational tools used to teach classes at different educational levels. These include educational platforms, applications, interactive resources, digital books, assessment software, and others. Within the scope of this research, we can see that the use of technology and digital tools in education does not aim to eliminate teachers or make students self-taught. However, its main objective is to update learning systems through the educational resources it provides, motivate students to search for information, provide them with the necessary tools to design learning-teaching strategies, optimize time for better use, and acquire skills in using virtual tools. The use of social media in conjunction with technological equipment has given rise to new educational strategies where communication with others is no longer limited to physical contexts, but also to virtual environments. These environments allow for the sharing of linguistic experiences and technological concepts. Over time and with the use of technology, learning methods and innovation in the teaching role are changing, developing technological competencies for their work experience in front of groups.

Music as a Prevention Technique in Counseling Services in Panama

2025-09-12T14:01:34+00:00

Music has existed in human life since the beginning of humanity and is present in all cultures from an early age. Everyone has the basic capacity to process it, which is organized in differentiated steps involving different brain regions. It is well known that music is blamed for causing young people to commit violent acts against others or themselves. That is why we wanted to conduct this research with ninety-seven people, who will tell us whether songs can be used by Counseling Services for prevention, but even more so for reflection on the personal and social spheres of the individual and on issues related to sexual relationships, drugs, violence, depression, school dropouts, emotions, maladaptive behaviors, among others. In the information we have found about music, it is widely used as a means of teaching and learning a musical instrument, but we have not been able to find documentation where it is used as a means of reflection due to its lyrics. The objective of this article is to present the results of a questionnaire we developed; Regarding music, and how it has been able to work on their emotions, modify behavior, and serve as a prevention tool; since guidance specifically seeks to prevent. We believe that with the data collected, counselors should use music, specifically its lyrics, as a tool that will allow us to create a pleasant and creative environment to open the student's mind to a more receptive understanding of the songs' content and thus encourage critical, reflective, and in-depth thinking related to prevention.

Community empowerment to transform collective environmental awareness in rural contexts

2025-09-12T14:16:31+00:00

This scientific research article presents the results of an investigation that designed and implemented an extension strategy in the rural community of Zayas in Batabanó (Mayabeque, Cuba), facing challenges such as inadequate waste management and low citizen participation in environmental protection, with the objective of strengthening collective environmental awareness to improve environmental management, increase community participation in conservation actions, and address significant environmental problems, using an approach from experiential to creative, based on participatory methodologies. The research was conducted during the 2024-2025 academic year, involving an intentional sample of 20 participants. Various methods such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, and participant observation were used. The strategy was structured in four phases: participatory diagnosis, contextualized training, community action, and systematization, covering three dimensions of environmental awareness: cognitive, axiological, and procedural. The results show significant improvements in increased environmental knowledge; positive change in attitudes toward ecological co-responsibility; adoption of sustainable practices (such as recycling and water saving); activation of collaborative spaces for dialogue and transformation, thanks to university support and the integration of local knowledge. The experience offers a replicable model for territories with similar conditions, provided that community participation is strengthened and sustainable public policies are promoted.

Scientific and technological innovations to integrate face-to-face and online teaching in university education

2025-09-12T14:48:12+00:00

This research article addresses the specifics of in-person and online teaching as a strategy to enrich the university experience in contexts with technological limitations. The objective was to evaluate the impact of a hybrid teaching methodology (in-person and online) on the development of digital skills and the ability to design collaborative projects in a group of primary school students, and to analyze the challenges and opportunities this strategy presents in a technologically limited environment. A mixed methodology with a qualitative-quantitative approach was implemented in a hybrid workshop for 15 students of the Bachelor's Degree in Primary Education in Minas de Matahambre, Cuba. The research included surveys of teachers and students, analysis of collaborative projects developed with artificial intelligence (DeepSeek), and digital skills measurements before and after the intervention. The results show significant improvements in the participants' digital skills and their ability to design social projects supported by emerging technologies. Although challenges such as technological differences and resistance to change were identified, experience shows that innovation, when implemented with empathy and adaptation to the context, can become an effective resource for advancing toward more equitable and inclusive education. The conclusion is that true educational transformation emerges when technology is put at the service of people, and not the other way around.

Community Project-Based Learning for Visual Arts Appreciation

2025-09-12T17:05:54+00:00

This article presents a review of the theoretical and methodological framework surrounding Community Project-Based Learning (CPBL) and its relationship to visual arts appreciation in the Mexican secondary education curriculum. Its objective is to highlight the importance of CPBL in strengthening visual arts appreciation in the Mexican educational context, approached from the perspectives of pedagogy, curriculum, aesthetics, and holistic training. A theoretical and documentary review was conducted on the evolution of arts education in Mexico, highlighting the need to revalue aesthetic thought and the challenges faced by teachers. Likewise, the pedagogical foundations of CPBL within the framework of the New Mexican School (NEM), the philosophical contributions to art, and its impact on the development of transversal skills such as critical thinking and student participation were analyzed. It is concluded that ABPC constitutes a viable active strategy for fostering comprehensive artistic appreciation, which includes perception, interpretation, and critical judgment, based on collaborative work and meaningful learning, the foundation of comprehensive education.

Community Project-Based Learning for Visual Arts Appreciation

2025-09-12T17:22:44+00:00

Civil engineering faces increasing challenges in a complex global world, where critical thinking is essential to addressing sustainable and ethical issues. This literature review examines 25 recent articles exploring educational innovations in civil engineering education, integrating project-based learning, generative artificial intelligence, haptic learning, and makerspaces. These methodologies are shown to enhance conceptual understanding, problem-solving, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Prominent examples include the use of AI to simulate real-life scenarios and the application of project-based learning in sustainable infrastructure design, which promotes the assessment of social and environmental impacts. However, methodological limitations, such as small sample sizes and limited empirical validation, highlight the need for more robust studies. Overall, the review establishes that the innovations reviewed strengthen student engagement and contribute to the development of professionals capable of addressing global challenges such as climate change. It is concluded that the systematic integration of active technologies and pedagogies in civil engineering teaching is essential to consolidate critical competencies and foster disciplinary innovation.

Hegemony and alternatives in pedagogical research practice in Angola

2025-09-12T20:39:08+00:00

Pedagogical research in Angola faces the need for progressive specialization due to the wide diversity of sectors it covers, which makes it difficult for individual researchers to comprehensively master the data. This article analyzes the fundamental role of educational research in improving the quality of teaching and learning in the Angolan context, highlighting its contribution to transforming the education system through contextualized and equitable practices. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodologies are examined, as well as emerging alternatives such as action research, systematization of experiences, and ethnographic approaches. Furthermore, the importance of integrating local knowledge and adapting pedagogical strategies to Angola's sociocultural realities is emphasized, thus overcoming internalist approaches and promoting more inclusive and relevant education.

Advanced Pedagogical Research: "Technology Transfer in Historical-Educational Studies from Complex Epistemologies."

2025-09-12T21:04:21+00:00

"Technology transfer in historical-educational studies from complex epistemologies," based on advanced pedagogical research, represents an epistemic and paradigmatic leap from the traditional way of conceiving historical-educational research. Through the development of critical thinking, it is possible to project a vision of knowledge that challenges the limitations and simplifications inherent in these classic disciplinary and parallel approaches. This involves a deconstruction and a new configuration of the framework of research models and alternatives that transcend historical-educational studies with a transcomplex meaning and scope, from the educational sciences and pedagogy in particular, from the essence of emerging pedagogies, combining traditional approaches with innovative and active methodologies, aimed at understanding educational evolution in specific historical contexts and transforming contemporary teaching practice. The rehearsal aims to establish a system of theoretical and methodological connections between technology transfer, complex epistemologies, and historical-educational studies, as a contribution to developing the state of the art in cutting-edge pedagogical research.

Erich Fromm and Radical Humanism

2025-09-12T21:26:08+00:00

This philosophical-narrative essay proposes a critical and committed rereading of Erich Fromm's thought, centered on his proposal for Radical Humanism as an ethic of being in the face of the multiple civilizational crises of the 21st century. Based on my current experience as a university philosophy professor, I raise a concern shared by many students: the ethical and existential disorientation of new generations. In this context, I recover the figure of Fromm, not as an author of the past, but as a current thinker who articulates spirituality and social analysis, cultural critique, and active hope. I explore his Jewish roots and their connection with prophetic ethics; his break with orthodox psychoanalysis and his proposal for a humanist sociopsychology; his critique of the social character shaped by capitalism, the emptying of the modern subject, and the "faceless man" generated by mercantilist society; his call to reorient existence from having to being; and his openness to a non-dogmatic spirituality, in dialogue with Zen Buddhism. I also develop his concept of active hope as a transformative ethical attitude, and his defense of an ethics of care, biophilia, and lucid compassion. From a personal and reflective perspective, I propose the validity of an ethics of being as a path to redefining freedom, love, education, spirituality, and hope. This reading of Fromm does not seek to close his thought, but rather to revitalize it as an ethical and pedagogical beacon for those who yearn to live humanely in a world that threatens to dehumanize us.