UNIVERSITY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: BRINGING SCIENCE TO CHILDREN

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.5584142416047

• Palavras-chave: Aptitudes sobresalientes, talentos, niñez, universidad, enriquecimiento extracurricular, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos.

• Keywords: Outstanding abilities, talents, childhood, university, extracurricular enrichment, Autonomous University of the State of Morelos.

• Abstract:

  Scientific spaces are fixed in universities and only a small population has access to it, which limits the basic level or leaves it outside the possibility of achieving it. However, international studies in education show that it is necessary to bring all levels closer to the scientific environment in order to promote, guide and stimulate new talents from a young age.
  In this sense, in Mexico work with Aptitudes has been implementedsince 1986, until 2006 when the Intervention Proposal emerged: educational attention to students with outstanding abilities (SEP 2006); This way, it becomes an imperative for basic education throughout the country.
  In view of the above, the purpose of this work is to show that, by combining efforts, it is possible to achieve a meeting point and articulation between these two educational levels (basic and higher) in the state of Morelos, which allows opening the scientific panorama in students from an early age. Particularly, applying and taking advantage of the principles that govern the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM), which literally has as features: social commitment, open to the world and generator of knowledge.
  The experimental work was carried out in three parts: exploration, application of psychometric tests and intervention through extracurricular enrichment.
  The results of this work made it possible to show that the approach of science to basic level populations positively strengthens the outstanding aptitudes of students and allowed us to see first-hand how these two historically distant levels can intertwine and nourish each other and thereby can improve the academic level of students at all levels in our country.