University Journal of the Caribbean

Preface

ILenia Arllery García Peralta — 2025-04-07

La Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaragüense (URACCAN), presenta la Revista Universitaria del Caribe, que constituye un medio de expresión técnica y científica de los pueblos de las Regiones Autónomas de la Costa Caribe de Nicaragua y comunidades, incluyendo aspectos relacionados a su cultura.

El objetivo de la Revista Universitaria del Caribe es compartir y diseminar artículos científicos, artículos de revisión bibliográfica, ensayos, informes resumidos de eventos, resultados de proyectos, lecciones inaugurales y conferencias magistrales que aporten conocimientos, saberes y prácticas en las temáticas de: Educación Superior; Salud Intercultural; Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente; Agropecuario; Género e Interculturalidad; Historia, Cultura, Autonomía y Educación de la Costa Caribe Nicaragüense. Su periodicidad es semestral, en dos publicaciones por año (junio y diciembre).

El volumen número 32 comparte la compilación de 10 artículos divididos en 4 secciones: Educación Superior (4), Autonomía y Educación de la Costa Caribe Nicaragüense (3), Género e Interculturalidad (1), Recursos Naturales y Medio Ambiente (2).

Pedagogical Model in the work of the URACCAN teaching staff, Nueva Guinea Campus

Mibsam Aragón Gutiérrez — 2025-04-07

The URACCAN Pedagogical Model was conceived to guide the teaching-learning process, hence the importance of assessing its applicability in academic practice and faculty appropriation. For this reason, an investigation was carried out with students and full-time and permanent teachers, in which interviews and focus groups were applied. In addition, coordination of academic areas was included, as was coordination of the academic secretary and vice-rector's office. All of this was done under the qualitative paradigm with a theoretical, methodological, and ethnomethodological approach.

The results indicate that the pedagogical model has been introduced through teacher training, department meetings, regulatory studies, and other initiatives. In addition, different pedagogical practices are carried out in the classroom that coincide with those described in the model. However, these are attributed to the knowledge or professional training of teachers, however, its mastery and appropriation by the educational community are still limited. This is due to weak forms of dissemination, personal interest, self-preparation, lack of monitoring mechanisms, learning environments, low teacher compensation, and, in addition, external factors such as the context, social, political, technological, and cultural elements, which have prevented adequate assimilation.

To overcome this, we suggest greater institutional commitment and identity; taking advantage of meetings and opportunities with teaching staff to address the main elements of the pedagogical model; and ensuring that authorities allocate space, teaching resources, and financial resources to promote relevant, quality educational processes based on the pedagogical model.

Methodological strategies for English learning in students from URACCAN Bilwi

Nilson Dumas — 2025-04-07

The purpose of this research, entitled "Methodological strategies for English learning in students from URACCAN Bilwi," aims to analyze the methodological strategies used to teach speaking and listening skills to students in the Education Sciences program with a major in English. The study was conducted using a descriptive qualitative approach using interviews and classroom assessment tests, which provided relevant information related to the methodological strategies used and their effectiveness.

The main results of the study show that students' mastery of the English language is evident, which is reflected in the positive results obtained when applying teaching and learning methodological strategies. However, further progress is needed, as there is a 13% gap in speaking and listening performance that remains to be improved. Furthermore, various strategies for teaching and learning English as a second language were applied, with the most frequently used being: reading, class simulations, presentations, open-ended questions, direct questions, debates, listening to audio, watching videos, and games, designing illustrative materials, research, dialogues, use of virtual platforms, and songs. These strategies allow for multiple interactions when teachers share classes.

Intercultural training spaces of Indigenous Higher Education in towns in southern Colombia

Rosa Angélica Viquez Pancho — 2025-04-07

The purpose of this article is to establish a debate on the processes of intercultural education and training spaces in the teaching of natural sciences or care and protection of Mother Earth, the bibliographic review focused on freely accessible documents from which the interpretation and documentary analysis of them was carried out. The political-organizational processes that the communities of southern Colombia have been strengthening to position their own education as the main pillar for the vindication and legitimization of ancestral and cultural knowledge are highlighted and the importance of consolidating guidelines that guide intercultural education as a process that involves society in general and not only as a competence of indigenous peoples is identified, since the homogenization of education has been one of the main reasons for the weakening or disappearance of peoples and cultures.

Fluidflow Simulator and Mathematical assistant for demonstration of the existence of miscible fluids

Elmer Osmar López-Maradiaga — 2025-04-08

This article focuses on the theoretical analysis of fundamental information to develop an explanatory theoretical model and highlights the importance of virtual components in undergraduate physics and mathematics education. The study uses a simulation obtained by the Fluidflow simulator to demonstrate the existence of miscible fluids from a vector point of view, reinforced with the mathematical web assistant. The research is quantitative, descriptive, with a positivist paradigm and concludes with a digital demonstration involving the interdisciplinarity of algebra, calculus, fluid mechanics and learning assessment. Software such as Fluidflow and Excel play an important role in the development of the research.

Paths of Intercultural Community Accompaniment of the URACCAN in the Mayangna indigenous people

Hermes Davis Taylor — 2025-04-08

This cultivation and nurturing of wisdom and knowledge (CCRISAC) aims to carry out an in-depth analysis of the implementation of actions in favor of the people for the good life and effective exercise of their rights emanating from the national, regional and international legal framework.

The CCRISAC that is presented arises from the need expressed by the indigenous territories and communities to face the realities in terms of rights and development with identity for good living. Likewise, the doctoral program with its line of research “Intercultural higher education, community support for good living” offers an opportunity to seek more efficient support alternatives for territories and communities. The study is focused on the Mayangna people of Nicaragua, who have a very extensive history of resistance and survival in the face of different adversities that English colonization and neo-colonization have been causing to this day.

The CCRISAC proposal is aimed at fulfilling the purpose of carrying out an analysis of the paths of intercultural community support of the URACCAN, which leads to a good life for the Mayangna people of the Sauni As territory.

To respond to this purpose, a methodological discussion has been developed around the CRISSAC paradigm with methodological pluralism, in this sense forms and spaces for raising wisdom and knowledge are used, such as: the dialogue of Knowledge, conversation and strategic tracking.

This article will focus on the construction of the state of the art from the form of cultivation and breeding of the conversation with which it seeks to give rise to the purposes of CRISSAC.

Afro-descendant peoples and systemic barriers in Higher Education

Teisey Teresa Allen Amador — 2025-04-08

This article analyzes theoretical perspectives that address the systemic barriers faced by Afro-descendant students in the university context. This is a literature review, part of a Cultivation and Nurturing of Wisdom and Knowledge (CCRISAC) that will be developed on the systemic barriers faced by Afro-descendant students in university education in Nicaragua. Using a hermeneutic approach, a content analysis was conducted of books, scientific articles, laws, policies, and institutional regulations that address or examine this issue. The main barriers identified are discrimination and prejudice based on negative stereotypes (explicit and implicit), lack of representation of their idiosyncrasies and worldview in the curricula, which impacts access to support services, tutoring, and scholarship programs, limited role models in their fields of interest, and access to academic opportunities, among others. It was determined that addressing these barriers requires a comprehensive and sustained approach that involves public policies, adequate resources, and a firm commitment to educational equity. This way, new generations of Afro-descendant students can access, remain in, and complete a successful university life, as well as demonstrate this through high academic performance.

Land and territory for the Good Living of indigenous peoples on the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast

Keith Sankara Narváez Ismael — 2025-04-08

In this essay, Land and territory for the Good Living of indigenous peoples on the Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast, the importance of land and territory in understanding and practicing Good Living is systematically presented. Good Living is built from town to town, focused on the practice of the community, having respect for the land and territory as its principle. This experience is centered on and strengthened by legal foundations ratified and recognized at the international and national levels, such as Convention 169 (1989) of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), and Laws 28 (1986) and 445 (2003). In the quest to recognize Good Living as a process of people's experience, several elements are identified that are intertwined under the practice, such as the experience of the environment, food (fishing, hunting), forest (economy), water (life and transportation), harmony, happiness, collectivism, among others. For all of these elements to be effective for Indigenous people, the main variable is land and territory; without them, these practices would never be developed. Therefore, if Indigenous peoples master the use and management of land and territory, it is possible to guarantee this practice of Good Living from generation to generation.

Background for the Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs in Mexico

Tania Libertad Camal-Cheluja — 2025-04-08

In the twentieth century, Mexican women faced enormous restrictions on publicly expressing their views and participating in both the political and economic spheres. Despite legislative advances and the increasing employment of women, profound gender inequalities continue to prevail in areas such as education, employment, as well as civil, economic and political rights.

It has been seen that the world is facing a multi-dimensional development process that seeks to result in the empowerment of women. An international development agenda has been constructed and promoted which has materialized in the form of legislation and programs in countries that have acceded to international cooperation in the context of the United Nations (UN). although countries tend to adopt international commitments at different rates (Camal-Cheluja, 2023a)

Mexico is no stranger to the process of progress towards women's empowerment, so this article reviews the progress of national documents known as gender policies or women's policies, to examine the actions of the Mexican state in the downfall that has followed to lay the foundations of a more equitable society. This work demonstrates that the advancement of women's rights in Mexico matches the progress of the international agenda, but that specific policies for the empowerment and economic autonomy of women entrepreneurs remain to be defined and concretized.

Finally, this work is carried out as part of a broader, ongoing investigation into the empowerment of women entrepreneurs in a subnational case study, for the city of Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Strengthening Capacities in Women, Men and Youth of the Jerusalén community, Nueva Guinea, RACCS

Oswaldo Hernández Rodríguez — 2025-04-08

The purpose of this research is to identify factors that influence the production and productivity of the productive systems of the Jerusalem community. The trainees refreshed and developed new knowledge, wisdom and practices related to productive diversification, agri-food production chains, food losses and waste, added value to harvested products and marketing of agricultural and livestock products.

The investigation was developed with a descriptive quantitative approach, collecting data through a structured survey to address the research problem: What are the factors that influence and modify the diversified production of food in the Jerusalem community? Subsequently, a data base was developed and was processed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS 25.0).

In the process, 33 members of the 25 families that live in the Jerusalem community were trained, 87.9% of them being women and 12.1% of men who are dedicated to agricultural and livestock production, as well as entrepreneurship in the community.

The factors that influence production and productivity are land ownership, training, funds for investment, production with identity and access to agricultural technology. On the other hand, the methodology of learning by making an impact on those trained, and contributed to the strengthening of GRUN projects in the formation of capacities for the improvement of production and productivity, fight against hunger, poverty, protection of the environment, as well as compliance with the SDGs.

A look at the indigenous agroecology of the Karatá community, RACCN, Nicaragua

Carlos Ernesto Mendoza Blanco — 2025-04-08

The article: A look at the indigenous agroecology of the Karatá community, RACCN , Nicaragua, focuses on systematically addressing an analysis of the functioning of the agroecological bases that lead to food security, understanding the interactions of sociocultural dynamics and practices linked to the management of natural ecosystems that lead to the sustainability of biodiversity, based on traditional knowledge as a practice that guarantees proper and lasting management of natural resources, in which multiple practices of collecting local goods, the distribution of knowledge, regulation of access and a strict community organization.

Indigenous agroecology is based on ancestral and innovative collective knowledge and practices over time, on the management of biodiversity and livelihoods. Therefore, the collective traditional knowledge of the Karatá community interacts in the functioning of agroecological systems with complex practices of associativity and complementarity, such as; (the Pana-Pana, Asla laka and the Bakahnu that lead to Yamni Iwanka/good living) are based on reciprocity, unity of work and the exchange of goods.