The María Cano University Foundation participated in this symposium with a group of students from the Speech Therapy and Physiotherapy programs of the Neiva campus, with the aim that the students acquire new knowledge and also to access an academic space with researchers, professors and others. members of the university community. The III International Virtual Symposium on Philosophy and Education had as its main purpose to promote a philosophical reflection on education, from its foundations, its relationships and its advances in argumentative discussion environments that strengthen the pedagogical and philosophical contents in the field of ethics and understanding of the global crisis of war, post-pandemic and environment.

The activity was organized by the National Open and Distance University – UNAD and its research groups GIUC and Pasos de Libertad, led by the Eureka seedbed from the philosophy and education research line, in coordination with the María Cano University Foundation as an ally, the Center for Community Psychosocial Research and Action – CIAPSC and the GRIE hotbed. In this way, ties with other higher education institutions in the region continue to be strengthened and optimal spaces are created for the expansion of knowledge.

On its website, UNAD highlights the activity:

«The central theme of the symposium is one crisis after another, how do philosophy and education respond? For this reason, from research, an academic dialogue is opened to understand the crises that take place throughout current life, to analyze in a close-up of the pandemic, its impacts on humanity and its strong effects on our lives, on mental health and the economy. The Virus is not dead, it continues to spread and generate new lethal variants and discovering the antagonistic reality of rich countries and poor with imaginary lines that come to light.

Similarly, the panorama of Russia’s war with Ukraine appears, the face of displacement, the panorama of inflation as an eminent danger and that constitutes a challenge for the global and regional economy.

Two crises that from the Virtual International Symposium on Philosophy and Education we will continue to deepen, and identify challenges, arguments, reflections and decision-making with a formative spirit from the perspective of philosophy and education to provide effective solutions for transformation in the midst of crises.

From the above, 6 lines of work arise: Philosophy and education in the face of the global crisis, Axiology and ethics: Practical philosophy for the global crisis, Globalization, politics and war, Biopolitics of the metaverse, Philosophy for children and inquiry, Philosophy and education in the face of climate change.

The conferences were held through virtual mediation from the cities of origin and through the Zoom channel at the national and international level broadcast by the TV UNAD Virtual channel.

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