Picture of Andrés García Barrios

Andrés García Barrios

Writer and communicator. His work brings together experience in numerous disciplines, almost always with an educational focus: theater, novel, short story, essay, television series and museum exhibitions. He is a contributor to the Sciences magazines of the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM; Casa del Tiempo, from the Autonomous Metropolitan University, and Tierra Adentro, from the Ministry of Culture. Contact: andresgarciabarrios@gmail.com
Filter by year
tired of being alike

Opinion | Tired of Being Alike

The time we live in is cruel. As a society, as many times in the past, we are repeating the tragedy of forging aspirations that ...
Picture of Andrés García Barrios

Andrés García Barrios

Opinion | In the Face of War: Education in Pain and Danger

In a context like the one we are currently experiencing, Andrés García Barrios proposes ethical education as a process of thawing that can help us, ...
Picture of Andrés García Barrios

Andrés García Barrios

Puerto Rico

Opinion | Bad Bunny: A Good Example

In this new installment, Andrés García Barrios reflects on how the Super Bowl LX halftime show, featuring Bad Bunny, relates to the school ritual of ...
Picture of Andrés García Barrios

Andrés García Barrios

The Möbius School

Opinion | The Möbius School (Education in the Twilight Zone)

The Möbius School invites us to manage new levels of learning by challenging, even if only with subtle shifts, the boundaries of traditional teaching. ...
Picture of Andrés García Barrios

Andrés García Barrios

Artificial Intelligence Is the Spirit of Humanity

Opinion | Artificial Intelligence Is the Spirit of Humanity

Nowadays, people read and write more than ever (although not necessarily books). Writing and reading continue to be an excellent opportunity to connect with another ...
Picture of Andrés García Barrios

Andrés García Barrios

Opinion | Andrea (a Pedagogy for Death)

To speak of a “devotional pedagogy” is nothing more than to describe an educational, family, and social community capable of containing its members at all ...
Picture of Andrés García Barrios

Andrés García Barrios

Frida-y-Van-Gogh-and-AI

Opinion | How AI Expelled Van Gogh and Frida from Eternity

AI will never be able to know or recreate that human timing. It can only serve as a tool, never as a creative spirit. ...
Picture of Andrés García Barrios

Andrés García Barrios

Friendship

Opinion | We Are All Frankenstein (Uniting and Re-educating Ourselves)

Friendship is a radical act. It's an intense, shared love for something in common. And that common ground isn't just anything: in friendship, all of ...
Picture of Andrés García Barrios

Andrés García Barrios

school and politics

Opinion | School and Politics

School (the classroom in particular) is an excellent setting to teach each other the skill of listening. "Listening is taught by listening." ...
Picture of Andrés García Barrios

Andrés García Barrios

happiness

Opinion | Happiness

'Happycracy' is the culprit behind all those hundreds, thousands, and millions of messages we receive every day, wishing us, and even imposing on us, to ...
Picture of Andrés García Barrios

Andrés García Barrios

Teaching and gossip

Opinion | Gossip as an Essential Tool of Teaching (and It Is No Joke)

Teaching needs to return to the ancient practice of education as testimony, one in which our personality is present behind the knowledge we share. We ...
Picture of Andrés García Barrios

Andrés García Barrios

Suicide prevention

Opinion | Suicide Prevention

Andrés García Barrios shares some reflections as a father and teacher, based on the framework of World Suicide Prevention Day. ...
Picture of Andrés García Barrios

Andrés García Barrios

Let's look for something innovative

Follow us on our social media

Facebook Instagram X-twitter Linkedin-in Youtube
Visit the English website

Our sections

More from the observatory

Follow us on our social media

Facebook Instagram X-twitter Linkedin-in Youtube
Visit the English website