Education and Science in Mexico. The challenges of the "Fourth Transformation”

Abstract

On December 1, 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador assumed the presidency of Mexico. The president-elect was initiating a vision of government called the Fourth Transformation (4T), a paradigm that promotes social responsibility and through public policies in different areas guarantee the well-being of the Mexican people. Likewise, the 4T promotes a series of modifications to move towards a model of education and science, with a humanistic sense, its own perspective and oriented to the interests of society, where the State assumes an active role in this process. The objective of this article is to analyze basically the new Regulations of the National System of Researchers, the General Law on Humanities, Science, Technology and Innovation, and the Strategic Restructuring Plan of CONACyT, documents that guide the strategies of the new government in education and science. The study is a descriptive documentary analysis with a qualitative methodological approach based on a subjective and intersubjective reality. It concludes by pointing out that the transition towards the postulates of the 4T entails not only a path of turbulence, but also the risk that the purposes will not be achieved.