Contemporary Challenges in Public Basic Education: an Integrative Perspective on Professional Development, Innovation, Learning and School Coexistence
Year: 2026
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Public Basic Education faces technological, pedagogical, informational, and relational challenges that cannot be adequately addressed through isolated responses. This qualitative, documentary, descriptive-analytical, and comparative study analyzes five doctoral theses in Basic Education and identifies convergent dimensions related to professional development, infrastructure and access, mediation, inclusion and equity, institutional governance, and the sustainability of educational actions. The corpus comprises studies on school library automation, teacher professional development and ICTs, post-pandemic learning difficulties, school conflict and a culture of peace, and artificial intelligence in education. Objectives, methods, findings, conclusions, limitations, and proposed products were organized in an analytical matrix and subjected to thematic comparison. Six cross-cutting dimensions emerged: continuing professional development; infrastructure and conditions for participation; human mediation; inclusion, equity, and rights protection; governance and institutional support; and monitoring, evaluation, and sustainability. Their articulation led to a conceptual synthesis termed the Integrated Institutional Cycle. The findings indicate that sustainable educational transformation depends less on the isolated adoption of technologies programs than on the coordinated interaction of institutional conditions, professional competencies, mediation, equity, governance, and continuous monitoring.
Source: Aurum Editora eBooks
Institutions: Branner Global University, Universidad Europea del Atlántico
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7204495010