Second Virtual Seminar on Inclusive Education in Sinaloa reaches 5 thousand educational agents
The first part of the Second Seminar on Inclusive Education was a conference on the challenges of this 2021 given by Doctor Miguel Carlos Jarquín Marín
The second edition of the virtual seminar on Inclusive Education in Sinaloa, ‘Beyond diversity’, received 5,000 educational agents using digital platforms and social networks, reported the Secretary of Public Education of the State.
The Seminar consisted of a first conference given online by Doctor Miguel Carlos Jarquín Marín, pedagogue, philosopher and psychotherapist, one of the most relevant Latin American theorists of existential therapy.
This Wednesday, January 27, the Seminar will continue with a virtual panel with the participation of three blind people: Ignacio Santiesteban Niebla, Dina Ruth Gómez Ramírez and Mélida Escobosa Ponce, also online.
The opening ceremony was attended by Dr. Luz Marina Payán Valenzuela, head of the Department of Special Education, and América Martínez de la Cruz, coordinator of Special Education.
Payán Valenzuela commented that this seminar emerged as one of the priorities to strengthen teaching practices and the view of society towards inclusion, giving continuity to the interest shown in the first National Virtual Seminar on Inclusive Education, Sinaloa 2020, held in the month of December.
This, to fulfill the objective of the seminar, which is to contribute towards an inclusive, equitable education of excellence, through conferences and virtual panels, for the promotion of permanent learning in the educational community.
The state secretary of Education, Juan Alfonso Mejía López, called for defying indifference about learning barriers.
“Assuming we all have special educational needs, allows us to imagine all those barriers in an educational system that has been characterized by its inequities, and the issue of the pandemic will bring us new challenges and barriers, surely higher or wider, but we must not miss one accompaniment logic so that together we can challenge them, ”said the Secretary of Public Education and Culture, Juan Alfonso Mejía López, when opening the Second Seminar.
“Tomorrow, when all this is over, we will be calling here, in Sinaloa, to discuss these great issues about an educational system that fights differences, but also indifference.”
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