{"id":88450,"date":"2024-03-14T00:34:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T03:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/sin-categoria\/participacion-de-kix-lac-en-cies-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T00:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:45:36","slug":"participacion-de-kix-lac-en-cies-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/news\/kix\/kix-lacs-participation-in-cies-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"KIX LAC&#8217;s participation in CIES 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 68th annual conference of the <b>Comparative &amp; International Education Society (CIES), held <\/b>March 10-14 in Miami, brought together the community of researchers, teachers, activists, program developers and international organizations working to build and grow education worldwide. This year the topic of discussion was <b>&#8220;The Power of Protest,&#8221;<\/b> analyzing how it might engage with the histories, curricula, theories, methodologies, and pedagogies that guide acts of protest and how to think generatively about them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SUMMA &#8211; KIX LAC was present during the week of the meeting with an active participation of the delegation in different sessions and panels, formed by its executive director, <strong>Javier Gonz\u00e1lez; the director of Innovative Policies and Practices, the director of the Regional Center for Knowledge Exchange and Innovation for Latin America and the Caribbean (KIX LAC), Ra\u00fal Chac\u00f3n; Dante Castillo-Canales; and the Country Support Officer and coordinator of KIX Honduras, Rosa Mar\u00eda Moncada. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Wednesday, March 13, Ra\u00fal Chac\u00f3n gave a presentation on <strong>&#8220;Exchange and learning experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean: the educational needs of the countries are central to the KIX LAC&#8221;,<\/strong> at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/convention2.allacademic.com\/one\/cies\/cies24\/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Session&amp;selected_session_id=2099354&amp;PHPSESSID=dg4eddluunkj59064brch3ft3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">panel organized by IDRC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">panel: <strong>&#8220;Transforming evidence into action through cross-country knowledge sharing: lessons from the Global Alliance for Knowledge Exchange and Innovation in Education (KIX)<\/strong>&#8220;:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>&#8220;We are working with governments, civil society, teachers&#8217; unions, academics. We bring them together to support their own education system and facilitate agreements between countries to strengthen their collaboration.&#8221;<\/em>he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-88450 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"801\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/001-cies.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/001-cies.webp 801w, https:\/\/summaedu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/001-cies-300x186.webp 300w, https:\/\/summaedu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/001-cies-768x477.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1037\" height=\"623\" src=\"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/002-cies.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/002-cies.webp 1037w, https:\/\/summaedu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/002-cies-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/summaedu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/002-cies-1024x615.webp 1024w, https:\/\/summaedu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/002-cies-768x461.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1037px) 100vw, 1037px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-67643\" src=\"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/003-cies-1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\" \/>Later in the day, a panel was organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/convention2.allacademic.com\/one\/cies\/cies24\/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Session&amp;selected_session_id=2099425&amp;PHPSESSID=dg4eddluunkj59064brch3ft3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NORRAG<\/a>, about &#8220;<strong>The power of contextual knowledge for sectoral analysis and planning&#8221;,<\/strong> in which Gonz\u00e1lez spoke about how to advance educational reforms through the synthesis and mobilization of knowledge, and he also discussed in depth the e<strong>xperience of KIX LAC in El Salvador with the country support mechanism.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Afterwards, the Minister of Education of El Salvador, Jos\u00e9 Mauricio Pineda, spoke in depth about the educational reform<em> Mi Nueva Escuela<\/em>, in which SUMMA provided technical assistance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The minister explained that the KIX LAC country support mechanism <em>&#8220;has provided good support, promoting south-south cooperation, and bringing in experts who, through evidence, gave us the opportunity to analyze our gaps and challenges&#8221;<\/em>. <em>&#8220;We have been working with SUMMA for 18 months on technical assistance and more than 3 years with KIX LAC. We have concluded the work, so next Tuesday we will make it public for the institutions and academia,&#8221;<\/em> he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subsequently, Javier Gonz\u00e1lez, Ra\u00fal Chac\u00f3n, accompanied by Minister of Education Pineda, participated in a round table discussion. <em>Protest against hegemonic definitions of evidence of quality education<\/em>: <em>the case for a broader range of evidence, a <\/em>session organized by Education.org, with the presentation <strong><em>Expanding the range<\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>KIX LAC Center&#8217;s Evidence Notebook: The Role of Gray Literature in Improving Educational Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/em><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Related news of interest:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/news\/kix\/workshop-gray-literature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\ud83d\udccd SUMMA and Education.org organized the workshop What is meant by &#8216;evidence&#8217;? Unlocking the impact of gray literature on educational decision making.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/summaedu.org\/en\/news\/kix\/country-support-mechanism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Country Support Mechanism &#8211; El Salvador<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 68th annual conference of the Comparative &amp; International Education Society (CIES), held March 10-14 in Miami, brought together the community of researchers, teachers, activists, program developers and international organizations working to build and grow education worldwide. 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