WCSV2025 will feature a series of Methodological Workshops held during the Congress. We invite you to explore them by clicking on the name of each workshop:
Facilitator: Carolina Hirmas, Independent Consultant, Latin American Network for School Coexistence
Objectives: To identify key elements of teacher well-being through practical exercises on emotional regulation systems.
Target audience: Primary and secondary school teachers
Brief description:
This workshop enables participants to identify factors that generate threat, achievement, and calm within educational institutions, through a hands-on experience followed by the creation of a conceptual map. Group reflections are linked to core factors (well-being components) that contribute to building teacher well-being in schools.
Duration: 90 minutes.
Facilitator: Claudia Arufe, ITESO Mexico, Latin American Network for School Coexistence
Objectives: To identify key elements for supporting children in the process of self-assessing school coexistence through participatory strategies.
Target audience: Teachers of 5th to 8th grade in basic education.
Brief description:
This workshop is designed as a space for collective learning where participants will discuss the fundamental elements involved in supporting children as they carry out self-assessments of school coexistence. Topics include school climate, inclusive treatment, participation in school life, discipline, and peaceful conflict resolution.
Duration: 90 minutes.
Facilitator: Sandra Becerra and Carmen Paz Tapia, UCT, Latin American Network for School Coexistence
Objectives: To strengthen socio-emotional competencies for addressing conflict through dialogue, fostering recognition and participation while considering the classroom as a diverse space.
Target audience: Primary school teachers
Brief description:
This workshop offers a reflective and dialogical space aimed at modeling strategies to promote socio-emotional competencies. It will use case studies based on classroom conflict and violence, representative of the Chilean context, to guide the development of practical approaches.
Duration: 90 minutes.
Facilitator: Denys Serrano and Graciela Cordero, UABC, Latin American Network for School Coexistence
Objectives: To provide teachers with strategies to address school bullying from an inclusive and empathetic perspective, through the creation of visual materials that promote a culture of care in school coexistence.
Target audience: Primary school teachers
Brief description:
The objective of this workshop is to provide teachers with situational strategies that allow them to actively involve students in the process of transforming coexistence in the classroom, through containment practices that strengthen caring relationships among the student population. Through reflection dynamics as well as showing educational experiences that have applied these strategies, participants will build visual materials that outline bullying practices in correspondence to practices of inclusion and empathy.
Duration: 90 minutes.
Facilitator: Héctor Rodríguez, Universidad de Aguascalientes, Latin American Network for School Coexistence
Objectives: To strengthen teachers' educational intervention skills through practical strategies for conflict analysis, negotiation, and mediation in school settings, using a collaborative and transformative approach.
Target audience: Teachers and school leaders at all educational levels
Brief description:
This workshop adopts an experiential and participatory approach based on active and reflective learning. It combines brief theoretical inputs with hands-on exercises that simulate real conflicts in educational settings, using techniques such as: Role-playing to practice distinguishing between positions and interests, negotiating, and analyzing conflicts. Case analysis to promote creative and cooperative solutions. Guided discussions using tools for more effective communication. Group reflection is emphasized after each activity, linking experiences to key theoretical frameworks (Galtung, Cascón Soriano) that view conflict as a pedagogical opportunity.
- Role-playing to practice distinguishing between positions and interests, negotiating, and analyzing conflicts.
- Case analysis to promote creative and cooperative solutions.
- Guided discussions using tools for more effective communication.
- Group reflection is prioritized after each activity, connecting participants' experiences with key theoretical frameworks (Galtung, Cascón Soriano) that promote a positive view of conflict as a pedagogical opportunity.
Duration: 90 minutes.
Facilitator: Isidora Mena, Valoras-UC, Latin American Network for School Coexistence and WCSV2025 Organizing Committee
Objectives: - To learn basic strategies and materials for building classroom communities (group/class).
- To understand classroom community management as a multi-purpose strategy: fostering civic education, socio-emotional development, violence prevention, and learning.
Target audience: Teachers, inclusion support professionals, school coexistence coordinators, and school administrators
Brief description:
This experiential workshop presents seven strategies for developing classroom communities. Each strategy is accompanied by a short hands-on activity and a digital file with practical tools and supporting materials. The approach focuses on community-based school organization as a setting for learning to live without violence. The workshop also explores the social and cultural tensions and barriers that hinder this goal, while emphasizing the urgency of initiating the path toward building community within schools.
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Duration: 90 minutes.
Facilitator: Claudia Carrasco, IFE-UMA and WCSV2025 Organizing Committee
Objectives: To introduce the foundations of the narrative approach in biographical research and provide initial tools for the collection, analysis, and interpretation of life stories in educational contexts.
Target audience: Researchers and doctoral students in the field of education.
Brief description:
This workshop offers a space for training and collective reflection on the narrative approach in biographical research, with a focus on educational settings. Through practical exercises, review of experiences, and methodological discussion, participants will explore the potential of life stories to understand educational trajectories, meanings, and subjectivities. The session will combine presentations, group dialogue, and hands-on work with narratives.
Duration: 90 minutes.
Facilitator: Sebastián Ortiz, UPLA, WCSV2025 Organizing Committee
Objectives: To reflect on the school-community relationship through the lens of digital ethnography and its potential for collecting and interpreting institutional virtual interactions.
Target audience: Researchers and postgraduate students in the field of education.
Brief description:
In an increasingly digital world, understanding how school-community relationships are constructed and negotiated on online platforms is essential for deepening insights into school coexistence and violence. Through the lens of digital ethnography, participants will explore the implications of these relationships by analyzing interactions on social media, capturing users' voices, as well as their perceptions and expectations regarding the functioning of schools.
Duration: 90 minutes.
Facilitator: Paula Ascorra, Macarena Morales, and Karen Cárdenas, Eduinclusiva – PUCV, Latin American Network for School Coexistence, and WCSV2025 Organizing Committee
Objectives: To reflect on the connections between communities, schools, and territories, as well as between nature and culture, by recognizing biodiversity, environmental conflicts, and intangible heritage—and their relevance to learning and education for a good life (buen vivir).
Target audience: Teachers and/or school leadership teams at any level, researchers, and postgraduate students in the field of education.
Brief description:
This workshop invites participants to reflect on the relationship between schools and their surrounding territories. Using an experiential methodology, it seeks to identify and discuss the resources, challenges, and conflicts present in local territories—social, political, environmental, cultural, and more. The goal is to provide a methodological tool that can enrich the curriculum and promote democratic coexistence.
Duration: 90 minutes.
Facilitator: Pablo Valdivieso, Katherine Vásquez, School Coexistence Team – University of Chile, WCSV2025 Organizing Committee
Objectives: To share a training strategy in school coexistence and inclusive education based on the use of diagnostic tools and grounded in collaborative work between homeroom teachers and the school coexistence team, within the framework of a whole-school approach.
Target audience: School Coexistence Teams, UTP Heads (Curriculum Coordinators), School Counselors, and Homeroom Teachers
Brief description:
This workshop aims to present a training model in school coexistence and inclusive education, developed through collaborative practices (co-teaching and case analysis) between the school coexistence team and homeroom teachers. Using role-playing activities and group analysis of both internal and external diagnostic tools (such as the DIA socio-emotional and coexistence assessments, and the psychosocial-educational survey), participants will design training strategies at both group/classroom and individual levels within the whole-school approach.
Duration: 90 minutes.
Facilitator: Verónica López and Luis González, EduInclusiva – PUCV, Latin American Network for School Coexistence, and WCSV2025 Organizing Committee
Objectives: To introduce the foundations of multilevel statistical analysis and provide practical training for its application in the study of school violence and coexistence from a social-ecological perspective.
Target audience: Researchers, postgraduate students, and research assistants.
Brief description:
This workshop is designed to introduce research teams and postgraduate students to the technique of multilevel statistical analysis, emphasizing its relevance for studying school violence and coexistence from a social-ecological perspective (Bronfenbrenner; Benbenishty & Astor). This framework highlights how both proximal and distal contexts play a key role in human development and, consequently, in school experience. Recognizing that students’ experiences of violence and coexistence are nested within classroom, school, and territorial contexts, the workshop presents practical examples of how multilevel analysis has been used in various research studies on school coexistence, school violence, and punitive disciplinary practices (FONIDE FON2300074 and FONDECYT 1240886), using the Stata software.
Duration: 90 minutes.
Facilitator: Gabriel Villalón Gálvez, Alicia Zamorano Vargas, and María Isabel Toledo Jofré (University of Chile – UDP – Constructive Pedagogies of Conflict), WCSV2025 Organizing Committee
Objectives: To introduce an approach for designing teaching proposals that promote learning about coexistence and democratic citizenship within the prescribed curriculum.
Target audience: Primary and secondary school teachers, coordinators of Citizenship and Coexistence Education Plans, and UTP Heads (Curriculum Coordinators)
Brief description:
This workshop presents an approach for addressing conflict within the prescribed school curriculum, aiming to develop pedagogies that foster student learning for democratic coexistence and citizenship. It provides tools for designing and planning teaching strategies centered on conflict, encouraging coexistence and citizenship learning across all school subjects. The workshop aims to support schools and teachers in integrating curricular content with citizenship and school coexistence education plans, promoting meaningful and cohesive learning experiences.
Duration: 120 minutos.
Facilitator: Christian Berger, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), WCSV2025 Organizing Committee
Objectives: To discuss recent evidence and its implications regarding peer relationships in school contexts, and to identify diagnostic tools.
Target audience: Researchers, postgraduate students, and research assistants.
Brief description:
This workshop will explore recent research on peer relationships in school settings, with a particular focus on adolescence and its links to prosocial and/or aggressive dynamics. Special attention will be given to the strengths and limitations of various methodological approaches, encouraging critical reflection on how peer interactions are studied and addressed in educational research.
Duration: 90 minutes.
