El presente número, correspondiente al segundo trimestre del año 2020, cuenta con un trabajo referido al itinerario didáctico para la formación de profesores de Geografía cuyo modelo es propuesto por autores de la Universidad Central de Las Villas “Martha Abreu”.

La Primera Infancia vuelve a ser objeto de estudio por varios investigadores quienes tratan en sus trabajos diversos temas tales como la transición educativa de preescolar a primer grado, específicamente en el contexto rural., el tratamiento a la motricidad fina a los niños y niñas pertenecientes al mismo a partir de las relaciones interdimensionales y las premisas para la formación de actitudes ambientales en este nivel educativo.

Por otro lado se pone a consideración de todos los usuarios una propuesta de acciones para la historia local en la escuela multigrado apoyándose en la elaboración de situaciones de aprendizaje con un carácter integrador.

La superación permanente es otro interesante tema que se aborda en el presente número a través del diseño de una estrategia para la superación profesional del Licenciado en Educación labora.

Responde a esta propia temática otros artículos enfocados en diferentes aristas entre las que se encuentran las funciones que deben cumplir los directores municipales de educación en varias esferas del conocimiento científico desde la actividad pedagógica profesional de dirección y la sistematización de los principales aspectos teórico-referenciales de las buenas prácticas a asumir en la formación doctoral.

La Educación Física ocupa un lugar en la actual edición al develarse sus potencialidades como disciplina curricular base de las diferentes carreras universitarias.

Interesantes propuestas resultan las abordadas por otros autores con respecto a la Lengua Inglesa cuyos trabajos se enfocan en la caracterización de la competencia sociocultural esta disciplina en la formación inicial así como el aporte de dimensiones e indicadores a considerar para que tanto en el profesor como en los jóvenes y adultos para el aprendizaje significativo de este idioma.

La política lingüística para la carrera en Educación Español y Literatura constituye otra de las aportaciones que realiza un colectivo de autores de la Universidad de Ciencias Pedagógicas “Enrique José Varona”.

Por otra parte, se pone a disposición de los interesados un grupo de indicadores para la identificación a niños en situación de vulnerabilidad socioeducativa en las condiciones concretas en la oriental provincia de Santiago de Cuba.

Ofrecer una propuesta metodológica para la formación en gestión de la innovación desde pregrado constituyó el objetivo de un artículo propuesto por docentes de la Universidad de Granma.

El impacto en los estudiantes de Ingeniería Agronómica del empleo de la metodología del aula invertida en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje es otra de las interesantes propuestas con las que cuenta el presente número.

Como es habitual, la edición actual cuenta con reseñas y ensayos con temáticas relacionadas con el quehacer pedagógico.

Este número se destaca por la diversidad de temas. Lo más llamativo es el alto índice de colaboración de investigadores de otras universidades del país, entidades y extranjeros, quienes presentan estudios de carácter teórico sobre distintas aristas de la educación. Encontrarán artículos, ensayos y reseñas vinculados a la educación en Cuba, Chile, México, Argentina, España y Colombia.

La educación ambiental vuelve a ser objeto de estudio en dos de los artículos publicados. El primero es una contribución de investigadores de la Universidad de Chile, municipalidad Los Ángeles, el cual realiza un análisis de los componentes centrales de un programa de educación ambiental local desde la perspectiva de sus participantes; y en el segundo se aportan procedimientos metodológicos para la correcta implementación de una estrategia curricular de educación ambiental desde la Cartografía en la formación del geógrafo.

Ofrecer las problemáticas que presentan los estudiantes universitarios de México en relación con la Gramática mediante un estudio teórico de las investigaciones realizadas en torno a este tema constituyó objetivo de un artículo propuesto por docentes de la Universidad Autónoma en Campeche. La línea de investigación relacionada con la lengua materna continúa, esta vez con un estudio acerca de las principales habilidades comunicativas a desarrollar en los estudiantes de la carrera Psicología en Cuba.

This number stands out for the diversity of themes. Most striking is the high rate of collaboration of researchers from other universities in the country, entities and foreigners, who present theoretical studies on different edges of education. You will find articles, essays and reviews related to education in Cuba, Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Spain and Colombia.

Environmental education becomes again object of studied in two of the published articles. The first is a contribution from researchers from the University of Chile, Los Angeles municipality, which analyzes the central components of a local environmental education program from the perspective of its participants; and in the second methodological procedures, is provided for the correct implementation of a curriculum strategy of environmental education from the Cartography in the formation of the geographer.

Offering the problems presented by university students in Mexico in relation to Grammar through a theoretical study of the research carried out around this topic was the objective of an article proposed by teachers from the Autonomous University in Campeche. The line of research related to the mother tongue continues, this time with a study about the main communication skills to be developed in the students of the Psychology degree in Cuba.

Particular interests keep our researchers in the integral formation of adolescents and young people. This is reflected in the writings related to vocational guidance in Higher Secondary Education seen from an expert computer system for students of the twelfth class of the Maravilla de Benguela College, the motivation towards the study of the History of Cuba, as well as a psychoeducational intervention program for adolescents. From this same perspective, in another, a study is made of the uses of artistic heritage by young audiences attending the temporary exhibitions of the Cuban Art Building which was the objective of an article proposed by one of the teachers from the University of Cordova.

Particularly noteworthy is the article related to the pedagogical dimension to the sociocultural phenomenon “the Package” based on the growth in various Cuban social spaces of informal audiovisual consumption and the explosion of Information and Communication Technologies, which are also addressed in the Article Teaching Mathematics mediated by technology, relevant issue and also little treated. Another article discusses the different epistemological conceptions related to the process of humanistic formation and its authors analyze the importance for the moral education of the student from the pedagogical process.

We share an essay in which a critical analysis of doctoral training is presented as a determining process for sustainable development in Cuba. Finally, you will find several reviews of books by Cuban authors that contribute to a better understanding of them.

Primary education is again being studied in two of the articles published in this issue. In the first, an analysis of the teachers' representations of the new curricular bases in the Mapuche rural context emphasizing the need to overcome them in said bases is made; and in the second, ways of educational intervention are provided so that teachers, from their modes of action and spheres of action, strengthen the socio-emotional development of their students.

Teachers of the Manabí Advanced Polytechnic School of Manabí Manuel Félix López, from the theoretical study of the components of the concept of competence, propose modes of action, professional values, and professional competencies of five careers that are studied in Ecuador.

The representation of models for the overcoming of professionals in certain branches of knowledge is the object of attention in two works. In one of them the model is aimed at the management of local rural development of the professor of Agriculture of the Agricultural Polytechnic Institutes of Mountain of Cuba, and in the other to the overcoming of the itinerant teacher in the attention of schoolchildren diagnosed with dysarthria.

Providing the results of a diagnosis that reflects insufficiencies in the evaluative practice of Mathematics and Physics learning was the objective of an article proposed by professors from the University of Information Sciences of Cuba. From this same perspective, in another one a study of the insufficiencies in the formative orientation of the animal handling in the preparation of the future agronomist is made.

Interesting are the issues about the insufficiencies in the epistemological foundations of the pedagogical dimension of extension in Cuba; and the inferential discursive construction as a procedure for the treatment of inference in the process of comprehension of texts by students of pre-university education.

The investigation into the historical evolution of the labor training process of students with intellectual disabilities from 1962 to the present in Cuba in Special Education allowed the authors of another of the published articles to identify their historical tendencies.

In one of the essays, a critical analysis of the official proposal of the Colombian State on political education is presented, underscoring the importance of continuing to advance not only in the formation of citizens from the school, but also in the transformation of schools into truly democratic scenarios. In the second essay reflects on the need for the professional improvement of preschool teachers is in correspondence with the main educational problems of the territory and the identified individual learning needs.

This last issue of the year 2018 of EduSol magazine publishes three articles where researchers from Angola, Spain and Colombia share their experiences on the important subject of teacher preparation and the acquisition of competencies for learning. 
Topics of impact on current educational issues such as educational guidance, the interrelation of sciences, educational attention to talent, linking local history with national history are examined by researchers from different Cuban institutions. 
Research results about teaching processes, their importance, characteristics and historical development in specialties such as Plastic Education, Special Education, Agricultural Engineering, are approached by authors from the University of Guantánamo. 
The essays: Labor competences: considerations for Industrial Engineers, the case of the University of Guantánamo, and Habitual expressions and actions that hinder scientific research offer assessments to be taken into account for a better development of academic and research processes.
In addition, a review is published with interesting recommendations to enrich the cultural heritage of our readers. 

The new edition of the EduSol journal presents two research papers carried out by our academicians at the Municipal University Centers. Other articles discuss about learning styles, guided reading by the school library, the role of virtual classrooms and other aspects of more contemporary educational impact. Besides, two analyzes of educational models that will contribute to expand knowledge about this interesting aspect are presented.

The essays: Use of cinema in the teaching of history; Conceptualization and perspectives of the management of teaching at university majors, and Software in the teaching-learning process of physics bring us closer to new ways for developing the educational process in a different and entertaining way.

On this occasion, the doctoral thesis in Pedagogical Sciences The integration of communicative and professional skills in the process of teaching-learning of English for Specific Purposes in the major of Informatics Engineering, written by Silvia Miriam Morgan Scott is reviewed. It constitutes an important example to link professional skills with the implementation of the language strategy at the level of university education, in order to enrich the teaching practice.