he Education Minister Nicholas Cataldo Announced this Thursday Professor Juan Eduardo García-Widobro has been selected for the 2023 National Prize for Educational Sciences.
The decision was taken unanimously by the jury, which was chaired by the Minister and also consisted of Rosa Davis Alessandri, Rector of the University of Chile; Elisa Araya-Cortez, Dean, Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (UMCE); Ignacio Sánchez Diaz, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; and Nolva Ibáñez Salgado, National Prize for Educational Sciences 2021.
Given this recognition, Minister Cataldo He highlighted the path of the winner who worked a few years ago in the Ministry of Education: Since his work at CIDE, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he has made a significant contribution to the field of education, as well as through the 1990s and until recently in the development of public policies. He also contributed to the implementation of the programs by the Ministry of Education and as head of the General Education Division. In all these roles, he contributed to the teaching profession, and to the academic field as dean and teacher, where he conducted studies that conclude the importance of educational inclusion for the formative processes of our students and for the appearance of a different educational system. highlighted.
University President Davies confirmed this This award “has consequences as a message, it is an award that speaks to the country as a whole. I would like to highlight in particular Juan Eduardo García-Widobro’s commitment to educational justice, which has served as a foundation and guide for all the inclusion and equality initiatives that we carry out in various institutions, not only at the school level, but also at the higher education level.
Counselor Araya highlighted the importance of this recognition in the field of education. “Juan Eduardo, in his long career, has trained generations of researchers and teachers, but he has also asked us a very important question, perhaps not yet answered, which is how to achieve social justice through educational justice.. This means that regardless of the cradle, that is, where children and children are born and from, we can offer them as a state the education that gives them the tools to participate in democratic life. “I think this award is long overdue and well deserved,” he explained.
For his part, Rector Sanchez emphasized the academic perspective of the award holder. “It seems to me that it is clear in his writings that the talents are distributed homogeneously among the population. What we lack here is to open up opportunities for them to express themselves, and I think that by reading the postulates that he presented throughout his professional, academic and professional life, it is very clear what the message is. He said that This award speaks to the country in the sense of developing the best opportunities for equality, inclusion, diversity and integration in our education system.
Finally, Nolva Ibáñez contributed reflections on teaching. “He also has, like me, personal experience of being a teacher at all levels: in school, in secondary school, in public policy, in teacher training. He is a colleague who has undoubtedly influenced the professional and intellectual lives of many teachers, so I am also very happy By winning the National Award for the year 2023.
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