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Communication for Leadership in Educational Institutions in the Context of Complexity

 

Authors: Oscar Antonio Martínez Molina

Universidad Nacional de Educación, UNAE

oscar.martinez@unae.edu.ec

 

Oscar Alexander Martínez Villegas

Instituto Internacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico Educativo, INDTEC

alexander@inteca.com

 

Richard Antonio Martínez Villegas

Instituto Tecnológico Sudamericano, TECSU

rimartinez@sudamericano.edu.ec

 

Maryuris Nakaris León Oliveros

Centro Educativo Rousseau, CER

maryileon@indteca.com

Cuenca, Ecuador

 

Abstract

The objective of this research was to analyze phenomenologically the way the manager-leader describes the essential features and the way he interacts with his followers through communication, traits and actions of the leader responsible for a human organization through his experience. It is framed in the qualitative scientific paradigm, research is phenomenologically approached to communication, a tool of responsible leadership experienced by the managers-leaders of organizations in the context of complexity. This approach was based on in-depth interviews with 26 informants of both sexes, from different professions belonging to the public and private sectors. The results are discussed and analyzed in the light of theories of leadership and communication and interpreted taking as a framework, different perspectives about these experiences. It was concluded that the personal characteristics of an effective communicator, is related to his followers sharing communication, keeps the staff together through communication; He knows how to listen to people, he uses double communication via. The conditions of the organization that facilitate responsible leadership were directed to the existence of transparent, transparent communication, broad and open communication. The proposals for new leaders were oriented to dialogue capacity and the use of ICTs.

 

Keywords: communication; leadership; organization.

 

Date Received: 11-09-2017

Date Acceptance: 13-11-2017

 

 

Comunicación para el Liderazgo en las Instituciones Educativas en el Contexto de la Complejidad

 

Resumen

El objetivo de la presente investigación fue analizar fenomenológicamente la forma de como el gerente-líder describe los rasgos esenciales y la forma como interactúa con sus seguidores mediante la comunicación, rasgos y actuaciones del líder responsable de una organización humana a través de su vivencia. Se enmarca en el paradigma científico cualitativo, la investigación se aproxima fenomenológicamente a la comunicación, herramienta del liderazgo responsable vivenciado por los gerentes-líderes de las organizaciones en el contexto de la complejidad. Esta aproximación partió de entrevistas en profundidad realizadas a 26 informantes de ambos sexos, de profesiones diferentes pertenecientes a los sectores público y privado. Los resultados son discutidos y analizados a la luz de teorías de liderazgo y comunicación e interpretados tomando como marco, diferentes perspectivas acerca de dichas vivencias. Se concluyó en que las características personales rasgos de comunicador efectivo, se relaciona con sus seguidores compartiendo la comunicación, mantiene unido al personal a través de la comunicación; sabe escuchar a la gente, utiliza la comunicación doble vía. Las condiciones de la organización que facilitan el liderazgo responsable estuvieron dirigidas a la existencia de una comunicación diáfana, transparente, comunicación amplia y abierta. Las propuestas a líderes noveles se orientaron a capacidad de diálogo y el uso de las TIC´s.

 

Palabras clave: comunicación; liderazgo; organización.

 

Fecha de Recepción: 11-09-2017

Fecha de Aceptación: 13-11-2017

 

 

1. Introduction

The reality of complexity within the corporate or organizational world has transformed the management of companies, where the human becomes one of the priority characteristics to consider. Social or human organizations are distinguished because their members coexist following a series of positive norms aimed at achieving the objectives and another series of negative norms that seek to establish the basic rules of coexistence in order to preserve the very existence of the organization.

 

Also, this confluence of positive and negative factors originate a natural tendency to disorder human organizations, and to ensure their permanence over time there must be a certain degree of feeling of belonging to it, excluding those who are not members; Thus, the pride of belonging to an organization is what makes it not diluted. So, to ensure the good health of a human organization, it is required among others the existence of a dialogical, effective, efficient and effective communication, designed to impact both internally and externally.

 

Hence the interest of this research to study communication within the performance leaders should have in these times of constant changes, as different business models for the XXI century are emerging, where, according to Martínez (2005): "they will survive the organizations that effectively understand the company as an organization of people and place people in the heart, center, core, of the same, as the most important asset of the organization" (p.37); that is, if you think and act like that, then you would be in the presence of responsible leadership as they make the effort to promote a human organization centered on people, where you know how to listen to people, take into account the weight or importance of people in and for the company.

 

At the same time, Odiardi (2004) points out that:

Within leadership, leaders must have: Ability to communicate and generate commitment, leaders should be able to communicate, transmit clear ideas that effectively lead to the stated objectives, as the leader models, communicates and motivates, the leaders should be a example of others. Credibility is gained minute by minute (p.70).

 

Under this described panorama, a whole path of inquiry is opened that leads to the knowledge and approach of this activity of responsible leadership, from the perspective of the actors directly involved in it: the manager-leaders.

 

 The present study deals with an approach that seeks to understand what communication is like in responsible leadership, in the way it is lived and conceptualized by those actors, and is located within the scope of human organizations in the context of complexity. Hence, through research, the aim is to analyze phenomenologically how the manager-leader characterizes or describes the essential features and how he interacts with his followers through communication, traits and actions that a professional must possess to exercise the role of responsible leader of a human organization through his experience, based on the following questions:

What are the essential characteristics or traits that a professional must possess in order to exercise the role of responsible leader in a human organization in the context of complexity? And what are the conditions that a responsible leader must generate in their communicative interaction with their followers, so that their leadership is really effective? Allow these questions, have access to attitudinal features that according to the managers-leaders to interview, must have the professional that exercises the role of responsible leader, as well as the approach to those conditions that, from the perspective of the managers to interview, have to conceive these in the communicative interaction with their followers so that their role is effective.

 

2. Theoretical Assumptions

2.1. Organizations in the context of complexity

In order to know the complexity one could start with the approaches that Morín (2004) makes, about the theory of the complexity when considering that it is a notion to explore ... and it concerns all organization; "Complexity appears to us, first of all, as irrationality, as uncertainty, as anguish, as disorder" (p.2), it is present when there are a large number of interactions that are translated into actions, it includes the universal as well as the singular and local, there is a double temporality in unison that is opposed to a polytemporality where repetition, progress and decadence are read; At the same time as complexity grows, order, disorder, and order grow, this is the product of interactions that must not be separated, but rather, they must be distinguished.

 

In the theory of complexity, says Arroyo (2013), cited by Sosa (2017), who proposes that:

what is needed is a new social knowledge that reflects the past and the present in a multiple perspective, where the vertical is inserted in the horizontal, the particular in the universal, the human in the natural, the local in the global, the individual in the social and national at the international level, seeking both the reciprocal interactions, the relationships between each and every one of the parties (p.174).

 

That is to say, it ponders the concatenations and interdependencies. As in human and complex organizations, because in them all their parts interact to achieve the whole for the whole; they are also intertwined with their peers through interorganizational relationships in which a number of agreements, agreements, cooperations, alliances are strategically formed where their objectives are aligned for mutual benefit and both internal and external customers.

 

In this order of ideas, no manifestation of it is isolated from the people who comprise it, it is an interaction that according to Longa (2010): "are concurrent elements that can vary significantly when there are internal or external events that alter them, to which the theory of complexity resorts to the theory of chaos" (pp.206-208). Why? Because this theory can be misleading for two reasons: (a) It is not necessarily a theory, but can be understood as a large field of open research, which covers different lines of thought and (b) Chaos is understood not as lack of order, but as a certain type of order of unpredictable characteristics, but describable in a concrete and precise way. That is to say: a kind of unpredictable movement order. It is then evident that the theory of complexity and the theory of chaos complement each other.

 

2.2. Responsible Leadership in educational organizations

What kind of leadership will an educational organization require?

Without a doubt, it should be a leadership capable of guiding the transformation change, guiding it according to the fulfillment of an ethical platform, of certain values ​​of the institution, on the other hand, a leadership that allows, for example: to make the step of that organization governed by the functions that represent the verticality of positions, to take into account the creativity of people, Pestana, Cammaroto, Neris and Canelón (2009): "leadership is a key factor in these processes, and can be developed by people willing to improve their integral quality of life and its impact on their work teams" (p.12).

 

The author continues to explain, which must be a respectful leadership of differences, in the sense that each person has multiple dimensions: from the corporal dimension to the spiritual dimension that must be taken into account when respecting their performance within of the company. Therefore, the necessary leadership must be respectful of diversity. It has to be a leadership that discovers convergences in diversity, that is, that discovers that everyone has a strength for the overall project of the company.

 

In this order, organizations demand a new perspective of leadership because the traditional perspective of leaders, that is, the traditional vision of leadership is based on Senge (2005): "assumptions about the impotence of people, their lack of personal vision and its ineptitude to dominate the forces of change", deficiencies that only some "great leaders can remedy" (p.419).

 

But the complexity of the current moment should lead responsible leaders to know how to handle different styles of leadership according to the reality of the company, where responsibility is the core of their management. It is accepted as valid that the leader, in his basic procedure, incline by a certain leadership, but this, necessarily, must be accompanied by other ways of exercising leadership that take into account the aforementioned variables with a solid platform of principles and values.

 

Responsible leadership is that which is exercised for the benefit of others, and where the leader motivates and encourages people based on their own example. Acevedo (2011):

Responsible leadership is characterized by service, direction, support, understanding, friendship and love, towards others, under ethical, moral and spiritual principles in which the common good is pursued without affecting third parties, ie , that the end does not justify the means (par.8).

 

2.3. Communication in Responsible Leadership

The ability to communicate according to Baldoni (2003a):

it is the most effective tool of the leader, because a leader can obtain great achievements with words, however, the words by themselves are not more than an information; In addition, if these are enhanced by the character of the leader, his conviction and his personal example, words can acquire the power to communicate, that is, to inform, to exhort, to encourage, to heal or to inspire. It seems easy to make a message at first sight to another person, listen to their feedback and continue understanding through communication, however, it is one of the most complicated tasks of the leader (p.1).

 

Reason why, Zenger (sf): indicates in his interview that "the great pending subject of the leaders, especially the Spanish fundamentally is the establishment of objectives and everything that has to do with the interpersonal axis: to build relationships, to work in equipment and communicate properly" (p.1).

 

Returning to what has been raised, to achieve the elaboration of messages, three stages of a leadership communication process must be analyzed: (a) The message is developed or what is meant or done; (b) The message is communicated verbally, mentally and metaphorically and (c) The message is supported by keeping it fresh (dynamic, fluid) and meaningful (common signs and symbols). Baldoni (2003b): evidence then, how can "contribute to improve oral and written words in leadership messages that inform, encourage and inspire others to improve themselves, their team and their organization" (p.1).

 

One might ask: How does a leader communicate? The Theory of Business Communication Baldoni (2003c): has contributed to give answers in the sense they make points where they emphasize that "leadership communications are composed of messages from the leader that are based on the values ​​and culture of an organization and have an importance for employees or followers, customers, strategic partners, shareholders and media" (p.2).

 

If you review how communications influence the organization, you can generalize that it is top-down or top-down, however, to complete this communication process, leaders must do something important and acquire a commitment to listen, that is, establish a favorable climate for the exchange of ideas, setting their expectations around doing it both individually and with the work teams and structuring their communications to keep them faithful to the organizational culture.

 

3. The Way of the Method

3.1. Phenomenological paradigm to reach the reality sought

Once presented the characteristics of the problem, the questions formulated and the referential theory, which link the present study with the so-called qualitative scientific paradigm. It should be noted that from the methodological point of view, the analysis was essentially phenomenological, which sought immediate understanding of the vital world of men and women through the global interpretation of the situations they experienced, as the description of the essential structure of experience and its objects-taking prominent images of consciousness to penetrate the layers of experience-in order to apprehend the structure of the phenomenon as it is shown, and investigate its bases and origins comparatively as experienced, highlighting the possible ways as he is perceived by individuals (Husserl, 1859-1938), cited by (James, 1999, p.296).

 

The moments of the phenomenological method followed in the present study, proposed by Leal (2003):

(a) Psychological Moment (the representations present in the analysis material reflect the point of view of the individuals that are investigated); (b) The logic of meaning (the experience becomes an object insofar as it makes visible - shows - something essential (universal); (c) Transcendental constitutive (looking for mutual correspondences that can become clearer when describing them or if reflection he has discovered them); (d) Metaphysical of the conscience (it is tried to understand the fundamental conscience or conscience constitutive of the whole and it is passed to the general Reflection), and (e) The critical historical one (the social horizon is raised, going by comparison to the previously established theory) (p.56). 

 

3.2. Profile of the managers-leaders interviewed

The total interviewed were 26 managers-leaders, of both sexes, different professions and greater than five (5) years of experience in their performance, as well as belonging to various areas: social, economic and industrial linked to both the public and private sectors. It is necessary to note that some of the informants (managers) are geographically distributed: 25 in Venezuela and one (1) in Argentina, residing in the cities of Caracas, Maracaibo, Porlamar, San Cristóbal, Trujillo, Valera, Valencia and Buenos Aires respectively. The experiences of the reporting units were obtained through in-depth interviews focused on individual and group.

 

3.3. In-depth-focused interview

The total number of informants was interviewed individually, reaching a nineteen (19) number individually and seven (7) as a group, the same, required audio recording, using a digital recorder, which automatically assigned codes to each one of the recordings, which lasted approximately fifty (50) minutes to one (1) hour, and was guided by the script designed for that purpose.

 

4. Analysis and Interpretation of Reality

4.1. Results on Meaning of Responsible Leadership

Responsible leaderships are characterized eidetically by being directed to an element on which a knowledge or meaning is based on primarily rational-cognitive elements, implied in the notion of responsible leadership that has been constructed and managed by the managers-leaders that is conceived as that related to characteristics of the responsible leader. This meaning of responsible leadership - in which the social world is involved - coexists a series of essence of eidetic meanings or elements that are related to its doing in turn gave as a result a meaning that follows two trends:

That related to characteristics of the responsible leader, and that has to do with; Share with the followers the communication, Keep the staff together through communication, Work in an integrated manner and communicating, are some of the verbal expressions, as evidenced in the expressions of the informants:

Informant no. 1: ... a responsible leadership is a sharing ... is to share with the followers and interact with them; ... we share a double communication via, they give me feedback where they expose their points of view of the organization, but they also like me think about the company so that the goals are fulfilled ...

 

Informant no. 2: ... the responsible leadership for me is knowing how to set up a work team, to keep it together, to talk to you, to talk, to make regular and constant meetings, in a two-way communication, to authorize you to give me feedback and not to be afraid of doing it because If I'm failing in something, tell me ...

 

The leadership that is responsible with the internal and external client and the expressions were located in: we must know how to listen to people, two-way communication. As evidenced by the following:

Informant no. 3: ... I have always aimed that the responsible leader has as a goal the integration with the rest of the team and through double communication via it is possible to overcome or exceed those goals if one hears your team and gives feedback ...

 

Informant no. 4: ... within the business reality it is very important to communicate with both internal and external customers because knowing how to listen is definitely what allows us to have a more complete vision ... then listening ... is an extremely powerful tool especially in such environments difficult as the one we are living ...

 

4.2. In relation to the Characteristics that the Responsible Leader must possess

Based on the experience of the informants, it is clearly recognized by them, that the responsible leader must have certain characteristics or features of mind felt and perceived in terms of being communicative, using double-way communication, knowing how to listen, presenting Expressions like the following:

Informant no. 5: ... You must be a communicator, that is, that you use double communication, that you know how to listen, that you have a high ethical value and with well-established principles of honesty, that promote the participation of people and their followers or their team, to guide learning processes and adaptation to these changes product of the uncertainty that organizations are currently experiencing and called Complexity, which has high the principle of identity with the organization ...

 

Informant no. 6: ... this ... well the performance based on values, communication, it is vital that the leader communicates and if you do not have those personal characteristics as communication, because communication is what gives you the opportunity to know , to know how to listen, to know people well to give them a personalized treatment and that allows you if your leader has that trait ...

 

4.3. Results about the conditions of the leader's interaction with his followers

The conditions or scenarios that must be generated in order for their leadership to be truly effective were aimed at conditions that facilitate relations a responsible leader in their interaction with their followers, among which they identify the existence of a double communication via, active listening, opening and readiness to criticize. For example:

Informant no. 6: ... well the important, the first, ... the first thing that should be given as a condition, and I told you before is an excellent communication via double, in a scenario so that you as a leader communicate with your followers or your team, ... also a product of the above, a level of trust and openness that do not see you as a boss, but as a person who orients and democratically makes decisions and that level of identification and loyalty to the company, helps ...

 

Informant no. 4: ... You have to be a two-way communicator and a good listener if you want to be a responsible leader, because apart from the training that one brings I entered this professional world. I say when we were trying to enter modern management, in modern management where they taught me what I should. I have to listen to all the staff and I have even tried to practice it always ...

 

4.4. Results about the organization's conditions

These conditions are related to the environment and the structure is intended to approach those conditions that, from the perspective of the interviewed managers, must generate in them the knowledge they have about the organization they lead and the objectives pursued so that their role be effective With respect to it, the experiences were directed to the existence of favorable conditions such as clear, transparent communication, broad and open communication in two ways, among others were its expressions, for example:

Informant no. 7: ... The conditions ... (think of the answer) ... On the stage you must deprive the diaphanous, transparent, two-way communication as a fundamental element so that you as a leader can communicate, but your followers, they can feed back the process and In addition, to feel taken care of, that is very important, that they can ... communication has to be in two ways, for a leader that is very important.

 

Informant no. 8: ... The communication, wide, open in two ways, a double communication via, I tell them, they tell me, I pose, they raise and the decisions of mutual agreement and if there are decisions in which I think it should be Do as I say, explain why, listen to their proposals and analyze them to see, because I can be ... also be peeling, because suddenly see something that you bring, so it is said that every day you learn something new, every day you learn something new.

 

4.5. Results on internal factors (locus of control) that affect Responsible Leadership

The internal locus of control factors that influence the Responsible Leadership definitely have a greater impact on the performance of the manager-leaders and that according to them favor their work, those who recognize and identify essentially in them, the internal factors that positively influence or favor , they have made themselves felt in aspects such as: Double-way communication, Dialogue capacity and the use of ICTs. Below, some testimonials.

 

Informant no. 9: Another positive internal factor that must be taken into account is the double communication via, the know how to listen and in the search for the opportune moment to ... to generate an information, because not always in all the places you can give information and it is one of the fundamental flaws in the management of a manager. leader, because sometimes does not evaluate the environment, you know that communication is based on three major elements to consider: the sender, the receiver and the communication channel, if those are not fully synchronized, aligned, definitely the communication is not going to arrive as expected that it has to arrive, summary there must be an excellent communication ...

 

Informant no. 10: ... First of all communication is key, every leader bases the exercise of his leadership on the communicational aspect, good communication will be the key to transmit the message that the leader wants to instill in his followers to achieve the organizational objectives and something very important that favors is the use of TIC'S as a basic tool for synchronous and asynchronous communication facilitates this exercise ...

 

5. Proposals linked to what to do

The managers-leaders interviewed, clearly identified those elements that according to their own experience disturbed their work as responsible leaders to make valid proposals or recommendations to natural leaders, who begin in business management, recommendations directed to the leader as a person (personal profile ).

 

Regarding the personal profile, they made statements regarding: communicating, and developing communication skills, having a clear mind, having common sense:

Informant no. 11: ... must know how to listen, must be tolerant, communicator and observer born. Must be a researcher with skills for the management of TIC'S, as well as stay updated, that is, prepare academically ...

 

Informant no. 10: ... the important thing is to know in depth each of the members of each team .... be a good listener, which is a characteristic -show it- that the responsible leader must have, try to hear and understand and after all the opinions is to try to integrate one that is almost always the best, because if you think you have the answer, what is is peeling ...

 

5.1. Comparison with the theories on communication and leadership in which responsible leadership is framed

The results of this qualitative and phenomenological research are interwoven in that manager-leaders have a meaning of responsible leadership in which the social world is involved, which is related to the characteristics proposed by the aforementioned authors, where it is evident that This aspect coincides with the fact that it has to be a leadership where the main characteristic is to be a good communicator, to discover convergences in diversity, that is, to discover through their dialogue and active listening that everyone has a strength for the global project of the company, in addition a respectful leadership of the differences, in the sense that each person has multiple dimensions: from the corporal dimension to the spiritual dimension which must be taken into account when respecting their performance Inside the company.

 

They are also coincident from the point of view of Baldoni (2003d): in the sense that they make statements where they emphasize that "leadership communications are composed of messages from the leader that are based on the values ​​and culture of an organization and have an importance for employees or followers, customers, strategic partners, shareholders and media" (p.2).

 

In turn, responsible leadership creates a bond of trust between the leader and his followers, as expressed by Baldoni (2003e): who indiscriminately assumes that what the leader pursues with communications is "to affirm the mission and vision of the organization, launch transformation initiatives for the achievement of organizational goals" (p.2).

 

6. Final reflection

           The present qualitative study addressed the present communication in the performance of the responsible leader as an object of perception and experience for a group of twenty-six managers-leaders who work in different sectors, both public and private in the country and one in Argentina, based on of his verbal interventions in this regard. In the aforementioned interventions exposed within a framework essentially qualitative phenomenological and discussed in the light of approaches derived from research on the subject in question, various theoretical sources, and through the analysis of successive phenomenological reductions of the same nature.

 

All this led to the demonstration of the meaning or notion of responsible leadership related to personal characteristics; as well as being responsible with the internal and external client; there must also be facilitating or prevailing conditions with the followers, such as conditions of the environment and structure; also some internal factors that facilitate responsible leadership and finally some recommendations or proposals for the natural leader who starts, where the core of that analysis is the way communication is a privileged part of responsible leadership, all of which shows that it is a real and explicable experience.

 

His personal characteristics as a communicator, his responsibility with the followers and the organization, as well as that capacity for active listening, the handling of messages among others, represents the challenge of working on the idea of ​​having leaders at all levels orienting or oriented after a clear and internalized Vision and the creation of futures, that configure designs of appropriate organizations, stimulate cooperation and team work, value knowledge and lifelong learning. It is then, to create or consolidate an open, flexible and shared culture with focus on results, performance, people and the development of new leaders to communicate, for this the effective leaders notice the strategic nature of communication in the processes of change, the development of networks of conversations within their organizations and in their relationship with the context, oriented to results, characteristics present in human organizations.

 

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Oscar Antonio Martínez Molina

e-mail: oscar.martinez@unae.edu.ec

 

Born is San Cristóbal, Táchira state, Venezuela. Resident in Cuenca, Ecuador. Bachelor of Education Education and Professional Guidance Mention (Universidad de Los Andes, Táchira Extension). Master of Science in Higher Education, Mention Andragogy (UNELLEZ). Doctor in Education Mention Suma Cum Laude (Universidad de Málaga, Spain), Postdoctor in Free Studies at Universidad Fermín Toro. Diploma in Open and Distance Education (Universidad Fermín Toro). Master's Degree Advanced expert in E-learning at the Fundación para la actualización tecnológica de Latinoamérica (FATLA). Advanced level in Educational Technology advanced level in the Fundación para la actualización tecnológica de Latinoamérica (FATLA). Retired Professor of the Universidad Nacional Abierta. Academic Title Holder. Director of doctoral and master's theses. Responsible for COBAIND's research teaching-learning line. Representative of the Spanish Academic Editorial Convention-COBAIND. Coordinator of the line of research in Education at UNEFA Barinas. President / Founder of the Consejo Barinés de Investigación y Desarrollo. Research Professor of the Innovation and Research Stimulus Program in category "A-2". Teaching research at the National University of Ecuador.

 

 

Oscar Alexander Martínez Villegas

e-mail: alexander@indteca.com

 

Born in Barinas, Barinas state, Venezuela. Resident in Cuenca, Ecuador. Studies: Systems Engineer; Technical Consultant in Criminalistics (Universidad de Carabobo, FUNDACID-CLADIJ-UC); Expert in Virtual Education (Fundación para la actualización tecnológica de Latinoamérica, FATLA); Expert in Educational Technology EDUCATE 3,000 (FATLA); Expert in WEB Administration (FATLA); Expert in Media and Digital Journalism (FATLA); Industrial Hygiene and Safety Technician (EAO-Barinas); Industrial Emergency Technician (EAO-Barinas). Legal Representative of the Instituto Internacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico Educativo INDTEC.

 

 

Richard Antonio Martínez Villegas

e-mail: rimartinez@sudamericano.edu.ec

 

Born in Barinas, Barinas state, Venezuela. Resident in Cuenca, Ecuador. Studies: Bachelor in Education, Integral Mention (Universidad Nacional Experimental de Los Llanos Occidentales Ezequiel Zamora, UNELLEZ, Barinas, Barinas State); Expert in Interactive and Distance Education (Universidad Fermín Toro, UFT); Teacher and Coordinator (Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador, UPEL, link Barinas, Venezuela). Currently Professor of Ecology, National Reality and Constitutional Law at the Instituto Tecnológico Sudamericano de Cuenca, Ecuador.

 

 

Maryuris Nakaris León Oliveros

e-mail: maryileon@indteca.com

 

Born in San Felix, Bolívar state, Venezuela. Resident in Cuenca, Ecuador. Education: Bachelor in Education, Comprehensive Mention (Universidad Nacional Experimental de Los Llanos Occidentales Ezequiel Zamora, UNELLEZ, Barinas, Barinas State); Expert in Interactive and Distance Education (Universidad Fermín Toro, UFT). Currently a classroom teacher in the Unidad Educativa Rousseau; Coordinator of the Risk Prevention Plan (PPR) and head of the Earth Environment Program for Girls and Boys for Good Living (TINI) from the 2017-2018 school year, with 8 years of experience in the Educational area.

 

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.29394/Scientific.issn.2542-2987.2018.3.9.10.190-213