Track 4
Youth, Preventive Education, and Social Transformation

This track approaches education from a humanistic, preventive, and socially transformative perspective, with a special focus on youth. It includes intercultural education as an agent of change and youth social transformation, the Salesian Preventive System and its contribution to educational models, as well as the relationship between youth, education, and the development of critical thinking. It also addresses didactics and pedagogical approaches that consider the transcendent meaning of teaching and learning, the educational horizon of youth and human dignity in the digital era, and the pedagogy of sport in the integral and preventive development of young people.

Objectives

 

Track 4: Youth, Preventive Education, and Social Transformation

Responsables Temáticos: PhD (e). Alicia Cedeño, PhD. María Sol Villagómez, P. Mauricio Leime, SdB, Mgstr. Jessica Rivadeneira.

Specific Objective
To reflect on and promote educational approaches oriented toward the integral formation of youth, from the perspective of preventive education, critical thinking, and the transcendent meaning of learning, contributing to social transformation and the strengthening of human dignity in contemporary contexts.

Thematic areas:

  1. Intercultural education as an agent of change and social transformation for youth.
  2. The Salesian Preventive System and its contribution to educational models.
  3. Youth, education, and the development of critical thinking.
  4. Didactics and pedagogical approaches considering the transcendent meaning of learning and teaching.
  5. Youth educational horizons and human dignity in the digital age.
  6. Sports pedagogy in the integral and preventive development of youth.