ÁNGEL DÍAZ BARRIGA: BIOGRAPHY AND WORKS - CULTURE VOCABULARY - 2025

Ángel Díaz Barriga (1949) is a renowned professor and researcher of Mexican nationality, noted for his work within the humanistic disciplines, both for his contribution to the language and for his arduous teaching work. In addition, it has remained current within academic activities, making scholarly contributions on a recurring basis.

Barriga has also maintained a notorious profile within the field of scientific disciplines, since he has held important positions in this area; for example, she currently acts as a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. However, their contributions have been mainly inclined towards teaching.

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Likewise, Ángel Díaz Barriga is part of the International Francophone Association for Research in Sciences (located in Paris), of the Advisory Council that makes up the Interuniversity Program of Doctorate in Education of the Tres de Febrero University, located in the city of Buenos Aires; and the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

This professor has been highly acclaimed as an author, since his works have been reprinted at least 30 times, being edited, increased and improved.

Barriga's texts have been published through recognized institutions, such as UNAM and other universities such as Veracruz, Tabasco, Colima and Tamaulipas, among others.

Similarly, his writings managed to reach international platforms through some magazines from countries such as Argentina, Italy, Chile, Spain, Uruguay, Colombia and Brazil, which implies that his work has been quite translated and that he has addressed universal themes, which contribute with the social character that all pedagogical discipline possesses.

It is considered that the contributions and research of this author have focused on three main areas: the curriculum, didactics and evaluation (within the educational branch).

For Barriga, the basis of its foundations is in the fact that the educator, as a training entity, has the responsibility of constructing proposals of a methodological nature.

Biography

Ángel Rogelio Díaz Barriga Cásales was born in Coahuila, Mexico, on January 17, 1949. From a very young age, this author was interested in knowledge and education, although his first vocational inclination was towards the branch of psychology. However, he later discovered that pedagogy was really what he was passionate about.

He carried out his first studies at the Higher Normal Institution, located in his hometown, where he graduated as a teacher.

Later he began to teach at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Since then he has dedicated himself to publishing his work and nurturing his curriculum as an academic.

Studies, ideas and arguments of the author

Ángel Díaz Barriga has a doctorate in Pedagogy and his studies on this branch have been revolutionary because they question traditional pedagogical methods.

For example, it was usual for attention to be directed to the student's grades and not to the learning itself. This is one of the traits that Barriga criticizes.

In the same way, for this teacher, educational evaluation works as a means of control to be exercised not only on students, but also on teachers.

In fact, one of Barriga's arguments is that the exam degenerates learning since, if it is not carried out with caution and objective review, it becomes an experience of induction of power and not of learning.

In other words, for Ángel Díaz, exams are only a social requirement that does not represent the true knowledge that the student has acquired.

As is to be expected, these types of statements were quite controversial within the educational field, especially in the earliest years of his work as a teacher and researcher.

Likewise, Barriga proposes that forceful changes should be made within pedagogical teaching in Latin American countries, since traditional methods cannot measure up in a world that is so globalized.

The author establishes that nowadays there are not only notable gaps that separate generations, but there are also technological gaps, which implies that traditional methods are more obsolete than ever.

Therefore, Barriga is committed to a renewal of the curriculum that is adapted to the particular needs of each generation.

Plays

The author Ángel Díaz Barriga has written a considerable number of works, all of which are highly acclaimed and reproduced. One of his first essays is titled Thesis for a theory of evaluation and its derivations for teaching, a work that was widely replicated.

In the beginning, Barriga caused a stir with his new proposals, since they were sharply critical of traditional teaching systems.

However, as times changed and Mexican structures modernized, this author's work became more and more relevant and relevant.

Impact of evaluation in Mexican higher education. A study in state public universities

This is another of his most acclaimed texts. It was published by UNAM in 2008 and the copies of this work by Barriga were sold out in just three months after its publication.

In order to carry out this text, the doctor had the help of ANUIES (National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education). In addition, an interesting fact is that most of the people who acquired this copy were public officials.

In this important book the author states that the existence of an inhuman evaluation is unacceptable, which reifies relationships and strips them of their particular qualities.

Barriga states that nowadays society is made up only of those numbers that express market, control and opportunism, where only the “I” predominates and there is no space for an authentic valuation of the individual.

Other important texts

Barriga has also published other texts of equal preponderance, such as Didactics and Curriculum: convergence in study programs, published in 1985; The teacher and school programs: the institutional and the didactic, published in 1995; and The teacher in educational reforms: subject or executor of other people's projects, published in 2001.

References

1. Ibarra, E. (2009) Impact of evaluation in Mexican higher education: Assessment and debates. Retrieved on December 10, 2018 from Revista de Educación Superior: publications.anuies.mx
2. Ureña, J. (sf) Ángel Díaz Barriga, reference of education in Mexico. Retrieved on December 10 from Conacyt, news agency: conacytprensa.mx
3. Barriga, A. (1997) Didactics and curriculum: convergences in study programs. Retrieved on December 10 from Researchgate: researchgate.net
4. Barriga, A. (2008) The evaluation of Mexican higher education under examination. Retrieved on December 10 from Raco: raco.cat
5. Barriga, A. (2009) The accreditation of programs (study plans). Between formalism and educational processes. Retrieved on December 10, 2018 from UNAM: riseu.unam.mx