Transformations and educational transitions in Mexico

From quality to excellence, from in person to virtual

Abstract

In recent decades the society and government have made efforts to ensure that more young people have access to higher education, offering equal opportunities for the different groups of the population, being the main consideration the quality, investing resources and seeking policies that guarantee the improvement of results in the educational field. Educational transitions in Mexico are mainly due to the change in educational policies derived from the beginnings of the six-year presidential term, which makes it difficult to standardize criteria, as is the case of the concepts of quality and excellence, the first considered in the neoliberal period and the second as a hallmark in the educational field of the 4T (Fourth Transformation). And it is precisely the concept of excellence that calls us to reflect on social inclusion and access to new technologies in the educational field for those who have less resources and, in the context of a pandemic that extends in time and space, the viability of apply the hybrid model as a new teaching-learning strategy.