Trayectorias Humanas Trascontinentales is the scientific digital journal of the International Network Latin America, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean (ALEC) “Territories, Vulnerable Populations and Public Policies” whose headquarters are at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of the University of Limoges (France).
N° 21 | 2026
La educación contemporánea: viejas y nuevas problemáticas en modelos renovados
Contemporary education: old and new problems in renewed models
Directed by Carlos MEJÍA REYES
Published on line 20 April 2026
The journal Trayectorias Humanas Transcontinentales invites researchers, academics, educators from various educational levels, and professionals from formal, non-formal, and informal educational fields to participate in this issue dedicated to the critical analysis of contemporary educational processes and their existing challenges in contexts of accelerated transformation.
Recent decades have witnessed profound innovations in the educational sphere, present at different levels of implementation. Notable among these are the incorporation of reformist and alternative pedagogical models—such as the New Mexican School—, the use of digital technologies, the expansion of hybrid and distance learning modalities (with or without online learning platforms), project-based or competency-based learning, and the gamification of educational processes, among others.
health emergency caused by COVID-19 dramatically accelerated these processes, forcing educational models in virtually every country to adopt new forms of teaching and learning. This change was not limited to a short-term response but represented a turning point that consolidated transformations that had been developing for years.
The official narratives of international organizations, national institutions responsible for education, as well as various research studies in this field, have eagerly embraced recent transformations as opportunities to democratize access to knowledge. These are also conceived as technical shortcuts to personalize and make independent the construction of knowledge, and as part of innovative formulas aimed at building more flexible and inclusive educational systems. The
goal is to transcend the shortcomings of traditional education, which are no longer congruent with the demands of global, digitalized, and constantly changing societies.
Despite this, historical and structural problems that pervade educational systems persist, such as inequalities in access and educational quality, digital divides, the vulnerability of marginalized populations, differences in cultural and economic capital, as well as various forms of cultural, economic, racial, and gender-based segregation.
Added to these are segregations in occupational markets, institutional resistance to change, and the persistence of conservative practices. Epistemic hierarchies and symbolic violence also persist, along with tensions between renewed curricula and operational traditions that manifest in the very exercise of educational interaction.
Likewise, new challenges are emerging, such as the "uberization" of teaching, student disengagement, precarity and flexibilization of teachers' labor conditions, the dilemmas of artificial intelligence, the excessive commodification of undergraduate and graduate degrees, and the accelerated devaluation of certain forms of knowledge, among others.
In light of this complex panorama, it becomes necessary to demand critical academic analyses that rigorously interrogate contemporary educational processes and enable debates on descriptions, analyses, and explanations of situations that merit examination in order to contribute to the state of knowledge on this subject. Thus, the questions that motivate this call for papers are: What are the consequences of current educational changes? To what extent do new forms of educational organization promote or hinder educational justice?
SI N° 15 | 2025
Derecho(s) al agua y saneamiento para una humanidad próspera y saludable
Right(s) to water and sanitation for a prosperous and healthy humanity
Directed by Dominique GAY-SYLVESTRE et María Suárez Luque
Published on line 31 October 2025
This special issue of the Transcontinental Human Trajectories Journal seeks to reflect from different perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches on the human right to water and sanitation, its status in the global agenda of priorities, the environmental problems associated with water and its symbolic-cultural dimension in different human societies. According to some data from the United Nations, 884 million people in the world do not have access to drinking water and about 36% of the world's population – that is, approximately 2,500 million people – live in regions with water scarcity or "water stress".
As we know, water plays a vital role in public health, economic development and environmental sustainability, but only about 0.01 percent of the earth's water is drinkable, an amount that is reduced year after year due to pollution (UNHabitat, 2021). The causes of the current water and sanitation crisis lie mainly in poverty, inequalities and disparity in power relations, which are aggravated by environmental problems and social phenomena such as urban expansion, climate change, pollution and overexploitation (UNDP, 2006).
For this reason, this special issue aims to contribute with the production of knowledge and concrete case studies to the analysis of the gaps and challenges that exist to materialize Sustainable Development Goal No. 6: "ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all", which includes all the components of its cycle, including the governance and management of water, wastewater and ecosystem resources.
It also seeks to exchange ideas, reflections and proposals within the framework of the International Decade for Action "Water for Sustainable Development 2018-2028", which emphasizes sustainable development and integrated water resources management for the achievement of social, economic and environmental objectives, and the implementation and promotion of related programs and projects.