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ISSN 2576-196X (Print) ISSN 2576-1951 (Online) 

Vol. 4, No. 4, 2021 

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Original Paper 

Humanization in Educational Environments; Aspects Necessary 

for Living in School Today 

José Manuel Salum Tomé
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 Universidad Católica de Temuco, Temuco, Chile 

 

Received: November 10, 2021 Accepted: November 23, 2021  Online Published: December 27, 2021 

doi:10.22158/grhe.v4n4p101                 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/grhe.v4n4p101 

 

Abstract 

While it is true, quality has always been measured through statistics and percentages, often forgetting 

the training of the whole person. 

Now, when we talk about issues such as humanism and education supported by technology, we can fall 

into extremes: it is common to label technology as the provider of all the evils of today’s civilization; or 

the opposite assumption; to argue that incorporating technologies into education would be the panacea 

for all the problems it faces and finally, to assume that the subject of the humanities is more typical of 

actions and attitudes of the past than as a current need, giving vitality to any educational process. 

However, and fortunately for the educational community, today there are global efforts to make the 

educational task a human action that minimizes inequities and the abysmal differences that exist in 

countries like ours. Fernando Reimers says: “Equal educational opportunities must be the priority 

objective of educational policies, the aim of education must be to contribute to creating just societies. 

This requires improving the learning environments of the poor, but not only along the paths that have 

been started over the last decade. This aspect pointed out by Reimers is precisely the central aspect 

that all educational action must contemplate, the educational policies that are implemented in our 

country must guarantee, above all, the construction of a just and egalitarian society, strengthening the 

cultural wealth that we have, with respect to to the diversity of people, their past, their present and 

especially their future”. 

Keywords 

Person, integrity, humanization, education, technologies 

 

 

 

 



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1. Introduction 

In the discussion table of the educational institutions of the country, the design and implementation of 

educational programs that address the multicultural needs that exist must be a priority, to reduce the 

lags, reduce illiteracy and school failure, dropping out of classrooms, projects truncated, seek an 

education for all children and young people in the country and the incorporation of adults, with specific 

programs not alienating or transculturized. While it is true it is important to resume the successful 

experiences that other societies have had in education projects for all and for a lifetime, our project 

requires substantive actions, with precise objectives, with a global vision and a national mission. 

 

2. Education and Technology 

In Chile, the government, schools and universities of the present are now concerned with designing the 

appropriate and relevant educational future, which allows them to face the global social and economic 

demands that allow the opportunity at least to insert themselves and then try to compete in the 

frameworks of “globalization”, there are innumerable studies and actions that the various agencies 

responsible for educational work currently carry out with the purpose of planning from today, the future 

that has already been installed in our present. 

The actions, at least in the discourse, are perceived impregnated with a true spirit of planning the 

education of tomorrow, in a less disadvantageous situation than the current one, which allows its 

insertion in the world market, in this context we are talking about a task certainly humanistic that tries 

to at least reduce the existing gap inside the country, and abroad. This gap can be observed in different 

dimensions: a general gap, a regional gap, a geographical gap and a digital divide, understood as the 

distance that separates those who have access to information and therefore to new information 

technologies and communications and those who have it in a limited way or do not access them. 

Simply put, it is the gap between the “rich in information” and the “poor in information”. The digital 

divide has become a primary indicator of unequal opportunities. 

To reduce the digital divide, it is not enough to have access to the tools, it is necessary to create a policy 

and regulatory environment, institutional frameworks and human training that promotes the flow of 

information, innovation, and the effective use of global knowledge resources. 

This new model of educational action must have educational rights as its center, it must be based on 

equity, human dignity and social justice and must be guided to address the needs and aspirations of all 

social groups.  

If we want to be inhabitants of the global village, taking into account the educational problems we have, 

the challenge is to achieve an education for all and for a lifetime, I end up coined by Jacques Delors in 

his work: Education Encloses a Treasure, where he argues that education for all, must take into account 

the four pillars of knowledge: Learn to know, learn to do, learn to be and learn to serve and live there 

because some of our questions arise; How to achieve this coexistence if we have not been able to 



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achieve it in our own communities? Will this coexistence be possible taking into account our 

differences, cultural, educational, religious, ethnic, social and economic? Has current education helped 

to overcome these differences? Will the educational policy of our country go in the right line to achieve 

this goal? 

The population structure of our country is a huge cultural, ethnic, religious educational, economic and 

social mosaic, these enormous differences place us in alarmingly unequal and inequitable contexts, 

with deep and lagging senses and huge inequality of opportunities of various kinds. 

It should be clarified that our cultural wealth is what defines us as a strong and powerful country, our 

obligation is to appropriate it, maintain it and strengthen it. The school has been until nowadays the 

main conductive channel towards the education and culture of the people, precisely because of this, it 

requires today as always and perhaps more than ever appropriate policies, extraordinary supports, 

national consensus, that manage to diminish that enormous heterogeneity that it divides us, which 

distances us that makes us ignorant, that leads to inequalities, that prevents progress, and that has 

delayed reaching so longed for economic and social development. To locate more closely the 

magnitude of the problem we live, let's analyze the following data. The statistics are generally cold, 

produce chills when our reality is restricted in the face. 

 

3. The Humanization of Education before ICT 

The new communication and information technologies offer the ideal potential to expand the spectrum 

of teaching and learning, crossing the traditional barriers of time and space, as well as the current 

boundaries of educational systems. ICTs enable an improvement in face-to-face educational processes 

and offer more opportunities to learn in non-formal education systems. 

Exploiting these possibilities is the task that we have to perform, the challenge is how. What kind of 

teacher and student profiles do we need, what is the appropriate curriculum, what activities will support 

that curriculum, such as maintaining the motivation of the different subjects involved. Obviously we 

must bet on the planning task, which privileges the necessary humanization of educational processes. 

Mediation with permanent dialogue becomes an indispensable attribute. 

Distance education as a new modality in education will then also require the implementation of a new 

model, a change in the educational paradigm, where the roles for both the apprentice and the teacher 

have new meanings, new responsibilities, new challenges and new challenges 

This new model will require a joint hierarchy of planned actions involving institutional institutions at 

the macro and micro levels, schools, teaching, administrative, technological and students. The 

responsibilities of each of the intervening subjects, is also different, there must be an effective 

fulfillment in the new roles that they will have to assume, the biggest challenge may have to do with 

promoting the necessary Dialogue, The choice of means in education, to The design of teaching 

materials and for tutorial support should be based on the principle of maximum interactivity. 



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The challenge in distance modalities is a major one, because it becomes necessary to achieve a certain 

relative autonomy of the students, in their learning process, and I say “certain autonomy” knowing that 

they will be subject to the mediation of an online program assisted by the facilitator, by the tutor. For 

this innovative process, it is necessary to design specific pedagogical structures, which favor 

interaction and interactivity and collaborative work between the actors. Shorten the distance between 

teacher and student, and give immediate response to the latter’s requirements. For this, the use of 

communication technologies as teaching tools is imminent, under the premise that their effectiveness 

will be subject to the possibility that users access them massively. 

We need to avoid that, in distal education, the spatial and geographical gap is a factor of failure because 

of the human need for closeness of guidance guidance support. Obviously the internal and external 

motivation that the student possesses and receives in their learning process is important; Although we 

are talking about an autonomous and self-directed process, the teacher continues to be a fundamental 

piece, have this category of tutor, instructor or supportive companion, or advisor, In this order of ideas, 

the humanization of the Pedagogical Advice is proposed as an action line, under the focus on Distance 

Education of maximum interactivity of the instructional process and theories of student-centered 

learning (humanism, constructivism and collaborative learning). Even if the teacher is a member of an 

educating society for the sake of technification, it is necessary to preserve that traditional ingredient of 

culture that we call humanistic training. 

 

4. Conclusions 

The government and educational institutions face important challenges today, the main route is to 

continue to focus on development and overcome the gaps that have widened worryingly, within the 

country and abroad, gaps of various kinds. Today as we must never meet, join efforts to agree on 

dreams and proposals that make it possible to overcome the digital divide that separates us from the 

globalized world. It is important to emphasize and forgive if I am repetitive, Universities and schools 

need to design, plan on a prospective plane the model of the university we dream of, what should be 

inclusive but autonomous, preserving the diversity and inclusion of peoples. Today it is an emerging 

task to work on educational projects, models and actions that rescue ethical values, conserve and 

strengthen our cultural wealth and maintain the essential component of the humanization of educational 

processes, regardless of the type of teaching taught. 

The central theme of the debates on education in our country focuses its attention on the establishment 

of a New Educational Paradigm, towards the design of alternative emerging models that diminish the 

great lags and social inequities, so that they can incorporate, to the school to a significant percentage of 

the population that have not had access to it “If we want to optimize the learning process of our 

students, we have to apply to their design everything we know about the human being as an intelligent 

creature that thinks and learns” Bruer (nineteen ninety five). Of course it is important to highlight the 



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importance of universal and inclusive access to the information society. In this order of ideas, the 

education project we need must be based on people, for meaningful learning and the social construction 

of knowledge. Try not to lose sight of the necessary humanization of processes, meet the individual 

needs of each person, their own learning rhythms, the affective need that is inherent in every human 

being. 

 

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