El gobierno colombiano ha otorgado a las universidades autonomía para gobernarse y definir sus propósitos y funciones sustantivas de formación, investigación y proyección social. En este contexto, la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, comparte con la comunidad la sistematización de la revisión y actualización del Proyecto Educativo Institucional (PEI, 2018), en el que a través de un proceso de investigación acción participativa, que inicia con un balance histórico documental de la vida institucional, se actualizó la carta de navegación académica al año 2028. La actualización participativa del PEI se logró con la colaboración y aportes de los miembros de la comunidad universitaria: docentes, estudiantes, administrativos, directivos, egresados y sector social, en busca de una nueva cultura académica basada en la reflexión permanente sobre las finalidades de la educación y de la formación de ciudadanos y profesionales críticos, capaces de enfrentar los retos propios de sus campos de conocimiento, de analizar, plantear y resolver problemas que contribuyan a la construcción de sociedades más humanas, democráticas, incluyentes y con sostenibilidad ambiental.

The academic community of the department of Risaralda, in its permanent interest in evidencing the results of the research processes that are carried out from the Higher Education Institutions and as a product of the VI meeting of researchers of the department of Risaralda held in November 2021 presents its work: “The journey of research as a challenge towards new trends”, which reflects the result of the latest research and advances in different lines of knowledge in Agricultural Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology and Information Sciences, which seek to solve and meet the demands of the different sectors. This work would not have been possible without the help of each of the teachers, researchers and authors who presented their articles that make up each of the chapters of the book, to them our gratitude for their commitment, dedication and commitment, since their sole purpose is to contribute from the academy and science to scientific and technological development in the search for the solution of problems and thus contribute to transform the reality of our society and communities. We also wish to extend our gratitude to the institutions of the Network that made this publication possible: UTP, UCP, UNAD, UNIREMINGTON; UNISARC, CIAF, Universidad Libre, Uniclaretiana, Fundación Universitaria Comfamiliar and UNIMINUTO, institutions that in one way or another allowed this work to become a reality, which we hope will be of interest to you.

El artículo tiene como propósito evidenciar las concepciones de diversidad en estudiantes de primaria, en prácticas de Educación para la Ciudadanía basadas en el análisis de cuestiones controvertidas o de problemas sociales relevantes. La investigación es cualitativa y la estrategia es el estudio de casos, busca profundizar en las concepciones de diversidad de los estudiantes en contextos naturales de aula. Los tres grupos seleccionados suman 75 niños y niñas entre los seis y los nueve años de edad, procedentes de familias de distintas regiones de Colombia, que han llegado a Pereira por ser esta, una ciudad receptora de población en situación de riesgo social. Los resultados identifican prácticas de enseñanza basadas en perspectivas de educación para una ciudadanía nacional, en las que los estudiantes reconocen verbalmente semejanzas y diferencias biológicas y culturales entre ellos y, a su vez, rechazan o discriminan a los compañeros, principalmente, por prejuicios o estereotipos sociales.

We are pleased to present to the entire academic community and the general public the following work, which contains recent research results of a group of teachers from the Faculty of Educational Sciences in areas such as pedagogy, communication, technology and history. This publication is the result of the work coordinated by the Vice Rector's Office for Research, Innovation and Extension of the UTP, with the support of the Faculty of Education Sciences, through the realization of the First Conference on Social Appropriation of Knowledge held in 2022, in order to reach a wider field of dissemination of local research. In the first chapter "Sentiment analysis on Twitter about mobile learning" by professors Rosa María Guilleumas García and Hernán Gil Ramírez, a study of tweets about mobile learning is presented. To do so, the authors combined several techniques of social network analysis, text mining and sentiment analysis, using NodeXL software, specialized in network examination and visualization. Among their results, they highlight the great predominance of positive tweets over negative ones in this field of study, and at the same time point out that, in the analyzed tweets, the most used words were learning, mobile, app, machine, mlearning and education. In second place, there is the chapter "The institutional educational project. An opportunity for reflection and transformation of the Colombian university" by teachers Martha Cecilia Gutiérrez Giraldo and Carolina Franco Ossa, which arises from the reflection on university autonomy and its internal exercise in the construction of its Institutional Educational Projects (PEI). Thus, the main purpose of this work is to identify the relevant facts that have marked the academic life of the UTP since its creation in 1958 until 2015, in which the different strata of the university community (teachers, students, administrators, managers, graduates and the social sector) participated through a participatory action research process. The results show that since its creation, the University has updated its academic and management policies in accordance with the regulations in force in each period, and that, at the same time, as mentioned by the authors, the institutional processes of self-reflection and projection of the academic life of the UTP should be strengthened through the culture of academic and democratic participation, supported by the collaborative work of the university community