Research and teaching: Challenges, Innovations and Transformation in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic in three states of Mexico

Abstract

Human beings have experienced changes and transformations in their passage through the world, ranging from an adaptability to being nomads to becoming sedentary; They have faced different processes that have made them evolve and rethink the ways of life in society. This article was carried out with teachers from three states of Mexico: Puebla, Sonora and Baja California in a post-pandemic context. The objective was to analyze the experiences of agents who are or were inserted in Higher Education and who carried out activities in the area of teaching and research during the confinement by COVID-19. The selected methodology was qualitative, with a phenomenological method through an interpretive paradigm to reflect on perceptions of educational reality through two phases applied by a quantitative questionnaire and an in-depth interview. The results made visible the challenges they had in adapting from face-to-face to virtual education; the absence of horizontal participation between research work and teaching; and proposals or strategies for improvement in educational innovation in collaboration with research and university teaching.