Re-imagining CETI's future together: a new contract for education in Mexico

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54674/ess.v35i1.709
Keywords: Educational discourses;, Education policy;, Institutional management;, Institutional policy;, Organizational structure;

Abstract

This document is a critical essay based on the UNESCO's report, "Reimagining Our Futures Together: A new social contract for education" and two documents elaborated at the World Higher Education Conference 2022. For its realization, the Centro de Enseñanza Técnica Industrial (Center for Industrial Technical Education-CETI), a public educational institution of the Federal Government established in Guadalajara, Mexico, was considered as a case of study. The central argument identifies the problem of how to reimagine the future of CETI in order to formalize a new education contract in the country by contrasting its guiding principles, mission and vision with three axes of analysis: organizational structure; management and governance and; educational policy and institutional programs. The purpose is to analyze elements of institutional characterization and performance in order to question how the initiative of the UNESCO's report and the discourses on higher education can be considered to propose together a new future for CETI. A qualitative study methodology is used with analysis of documentary sources and cabinet information, a descriptive-narrative discourse is generated that serves as a support to formulate at the end of the essay the discussion of the state of this institution and the direction it can take, based on educational discourses. At the end, the proposal of this new future for the CETI is presented, in which a call is made for open research, the coexistence between governments and a development scenario for CETI's higher education.

Author Biographies

Patricia Alejandra Lamas Huerta, Centro de Enseñanza Técnica Industrial, Guadalajara, México.

PhD in Management on Higher Education from the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), Master of Science in Teaching of Mathematics from the UdeG, Degree in Mathematics from the UdeG. Full time professor at the Centro de Enseñanza Técnica Industrial (CETI) since 2008. Attached to the Division of Basic Sciences of the Engineering Level, she teaches the subjects of Design of Experiments and Time Series, Probability and Statistics. Main research topics: Policies for the promotion of entrepreneurship on Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), Management and processes of entrepreneurship promotion on HEIs, Organizational structures and behaviors of HEIs that promote entrepreneurship. She completed a doctoral stay at the University of Montréal in 2021 in the Department of Administration and Research Foundations. And a short stay at the University of Montréal in 2019 at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research and Higher Education. She has collaborated with research at the Institute for the Development and Technology of Small and Medium Enterprises (IDITPYME) of the University of Guadalajara and with the University of Valle de Atemajac (UNIVA) in the Department of Research and Educational Innovation.

Blanca Ruth Sandoval Álvarez, Centro de Enseñanza Técnica Industrial, Guadalajara, México.

Master in Education from the University of Valle de Atemajac (UNIVA).  Degree in International Business from the University of Guadalajara. Full-time professor at the Centro de Enseñanza Técnica Industrial (CETI) since 2015. Attached to the division of Social Sciences and Technologies at the engineering level, she teaches subjects of administrative process and organizational development, critical research skills, strategic planning and management skills, professional ethics and resource management. She worked in the private sector from 1989 to 2011 in administrative, coordination and marketing areas. She is currently an advisor on scientific and technological projects at CETI.

Published
2023-07-30
How to Cite
Lamas Huerta, P. A., & Sandoval Álvarez, B. R. (2023). Re-imagining CETI’s future together: a new contract for education in Mexico. Higher Education and Society Journal (ESS), 35(1), 229-253. https://doi.org/10.54674/ess.v35i1.709
Issue
Vol 35 No 1 (2023): The Futures of Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
Section
Articles Thematic Dossier

Copyright (c) 2023 Patricia Alejandra Lamas Huerta, Blanca Ruth Sandoval Álvarez

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Copyright notice

Copyright allows the protection of original material, and curbs the use of others' work without permission. UNESCO IESALC adheres to Creative Commons licenses in the open access publication of ESS. Specifically, the texts published in this journal are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license: They may be copied, distributed and disseminated provided that the author, the journal (Revista Educación Superior y Sociedad) and the publishing institution are cited. Commercial use is not permitted. The full license can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/  ESS requires authors to accept the Copyright Notice as part of the submission process. Authors retain all rights.

Attribution - NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0)

This journal does not charge authors for the submission or processing of articles. The authors of the contributions will receive acknowledgment of receipt that the work has reached the Editorial Team of the Journal.