"Generating reading and/or action research proposals provides a timely improvement of the education of our students and an improvement of today's society."
The recovery and rescue of historical memory and projects, as well as assesing the value of cultural heritage are Gerardo Salvador González Lara's areas of interest. However, he also cares about educational innovation, professional ethics, literature and discourse analysis because they give him the answers to the questions he constantly asks himself about the thoughts and actions of the human being, their causes and consequences.
As a professor, a researcher and contributor of an educational institution he values the opportunity to share lectures, analysis and permanent reflections of the world around us, from which he designs immediate-action proposals to contribute to a better humanity. Lectures also allow him to know what other colleagues and specialists are doing, which keeps him in a continuous learning process and makes him feel part of a well defined community: academia.
González Lara's activities have led him to specialize in source research, discourse analysis and didactic design of innovative proposals for teaching-learning processes, either by objectives or by competencies.
One of his main challenges is to manage his time to keep himself informed about the causes and consequences of events in Mexico and the world without neglecting his education and professional development. Above all, because he also does research, designs didactic materials for his work as a teacher and participates in institutional committees.
Dr. Gerardo Salvador González Lara
Associate Professor
Since 1988 he joined the Tec de Monterrey upon graduating from Campus Monterrey. He worked for ten years in the Directorate of Promotion, recently founded at that time; decade recognized for the high increase in national and international students. Simultaneously, he studied two very different master's degrees, Humanities and Administration, to begin his teaching work since 1995. He joined the academy full-time in 1999. With 32 years at Tec de Monterrey, he currently has 200 professional or postgraduate groups. with traditional didactics, in the virtual, online and Tec 21 modality. Due to the demonstrated evidence, in 2006 he was directly appointed as Associate Professor, skipping the Assistant level; and since 2011 he is a Full Professor, ratified in 2017.
Winner of the 2009 Heritage Trust Project Grant awarded by the global company EMC, selected from more than 325 entrants from around the world. He received the Rómulo Garza Research Award in 2011, the first time this award was assigned to the Humanities area and immediately after obtaining a PhD in Humanistic Studies in 2010. Recipient of two research grants from the University of Houston, among Other national and international recognitions.
Author of publications and multiple academic articles specializing in Humanistic Studies and educational innovation presented since 2005 at national and international conferences, and within the Tec de Monterrey: CYDTEC, CIIGE, Ethics and Citizenship Training Congress, and at CIIE. He highlights the book The Migrant Bishop. Contextualization and critical edition of the diaries during the exiles of the third bishop of Saltillo, Jesús María Echavarría y Aguirre, presented throughout Mexico and in three universities in the United States with favorable reviews by renowned national and international historians, and by the highest authorities. ecclesiastical organizations such as Pope Francis and two apostolic nuncios in Mexico, projecting the Tec de Monterrey internationally in the disciplinary area of History, Literature and Humanistic Studies.
In addition, the more than 22 articles on Educational Innovation stand out, the vast majority as co-authored project leader to encourage the new generations of teachers towards research and documentation of innovation. The 14 articles presented in all the seven editions of the International Congress of Educational Innovation stand out, two per year, and he has also been Evaluator Judge of works in all editions of the congress.
Designer of three Weeks i, a Semester i and a Tec 21 Social Service project, which in the end were considered as bases for the foundation of the Tec 21 Model. Additional training to the minimum required.
He was Department Director and Associate Career Director. Academic Senator from 2003 to 2006. Sabbatical period at the University of Texas. Member of multiple committees, including: Professor Classification Committee for five years, from 2015 to 2019, as advisor and evaluator - along with teaching and research work - when this committee was only made up of Full Professors. He advised colleagues, boosting their ranking of at least 25 professors at different levels and from the schools he represented throughout that period: Business, Social Sciences, Education, and Humanities. Evaluator at the Monterrey Campus and at the national level of files and appeals for the various regulations throughout the five-year period.
Pioneer member of the Monterrey Campus Academic Integrity Committee for three years, designing the structure and implementation for its national replica. Also a pioneer collaborator of the Mujer Woman Tec Award, writing the evaluation rubric, evaluator... Manager of donations to social institutions.
gsgonzal@tec.mx