In its issue 126 of 2025, the magazine Magisterio Educación y Pedagogía of Colombia has published an article that gathers the opinions of several specialists on current education and the future of Ibero-America.
Among these invited experts is Professor and Director of CRiEDO Joaquín Gairín Sallán, whose valuable contributions highlight the need to focus on maintaining and improving the coverage of compulsory and higher education, as well as extending technical and university education in the next ten years. It will also be crucial to improve the efficiency of resources allocated to education and increase the quality and outcomes of training.
Currently, the main challenge for education in Ibero-America is to recover the educational levels lost during the pandemic, especially for the most vulnerable people and groups. To achieve this, it is necessary to strengthen and expand public education and make lifelong learning a reality.
Technology, especially artificial intelligence, plays a fundamental role in current education. It is important to effectively integrate digital strategies and artificial intelligence into teaching, fostering result analysis, critical reflection, and intervention proposals. Additionally, it is necessary to strengthen training in digital and ethical competencies for teachers and students.
New technologies are not a threat to teaching work but an ally. They can free teachers from various tasks, such as information search and practice activities, allowing them to focus on the specific needs of students and the monitoring of the teaching-learning process. This will help make training spaces places for dialogue, debate, and knowledge synthesis.
Finally, the most promising educational innovations are those that respond to the specific needs of students, address diversity in the classroom, and achieve school learning.
The Magisterio project is an initiative of Colombian educators aimed at contributing to the improvement of the quality of education to which citizens of all countries, especially children and young people, are entitled. To this end, it has established four work fronts: Editorial Magisterio, Librería Magisterio, Revista Internacional Magisterio, and Magisterio Formación. Through these fronts, they seek to meet the needs of production and dissemination of pedagogical knowledge of Latin American teachers, as well as specialized consultation and continuous and relevant teacher training.
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