Editorial Unimagdalena

Description in English: This book analyzes the historical processes related to higher education in Magdalena during the nineteenth century and its relationship with the national and Latin American context. This research took INSERT INTO account the role of the environment and how it energized the institutional life of certain higher-level educational establishments, in a symbiosis that on certain occasions was proactive and synergistic, and on other occasions, one of imbalance and failure. This holistic, heuristic, and hermeneutic vision of history allowed us to see and understand the social and political actions of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), the entrepreneurial will of the leaders, the institutional dynamics, and the development of society as a vital complexity.Thus, this research is seen from an institutionalist approach, an orientation of the social sciences - especially historiography, economics, and politics - that traces the knowledge of society through its institutions, its functioning, and its effectiveness; by understanding that every social system is made up of a succession of processes of diverse nature (economic, political, and, of course, socio-cultural), to carry out its functions, obtained in turn from a set of institutions determined and interrelated in themselves, through which the behavior of individuals is also regulated.