Vol. 12 No. 1 (2025)

Issue 12 of Revista Publicando closes as a volume that reaffirms the journal’s profile in the field of the social sciences, with particular attention to education, technological transformation, contemporary economics, and the dynamics of power that shape our Latin American societies.

In the field of education, several contributions engage in an indirect dialogue with one another. The study Personal, Physical, Social, and Academic Self-Concept in Physical Education University Students by Gender, by María del Carmen Zueck Enríquez and co-authors, provides empirical evidence on how gender differences continue to shape students’ self-perception, compelling us to rethink pedagogical interventions through an equity-oriented lens. In the same formative line, Ana Tripković, in Speaking Anxiety in Higher Education English Students, challenges the assumption that advanced proficiency neutralizes linguistic insecurity, showing that anxiety persists even at B2–C2 levels, now linked to more complex affective and evaluative factors.

From a more structural perspective, Jorge Molina Aguilar, in Neuroeducation and Teaching in the Salvadoran Public School System, examines the tensions between neuroscientific discourse, institutional precariousness, and political context. The article warns against turning neuroeducation into a decontextualized technocratic narrative if material conditions and basic educational rights are not guaranteed. This discussion finds a contemporary counterpart in Educational Chatbots: The Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Training, where the incorporation of AI into technical education raises questions about the role of the teacher, technological mediation, and the redefinition of the learning process.

At the level of subjectivity and social relations, Parenting Styles and Emotional Dependency in School-Attending Adolescents in Montería, Colombia offers relevant data on the relationship between parental commitment, psychological autonomy, and emotional regulation. Similarly, Sexuality and Youth: Attitudes and Behaviors among University Students examines practices, sex education, and identity construction among Ecuadorian youth, revealing the persistence of limited biomedical approaches and significant educational gaps.

The issue acquires a broader critical dimension with Indian Reason and the Myth of Timecidal Alterity: The Case of the Ethnonym “Otomí”, by Héctor Martínez-Ruiz. From a hermeneutic and decolonial perspective, the author challenges the historical narrative that attributes a pre-Hispanic pejorative character to the term “Otomí,” arguing that its semantic degradation responds instead to a colonial strategy of producing alterity and division. This article directly engages contemporary debates on the coloniality of power, knowledge, and being.

In the economic and organizational sphere, the study Digital Financial Inclusion and Its Effect on the Growth of Microenterprises in Ecuador demonstrates how digital financial services significantly explain post-pandemic growth, while also warning about inequalities in access and training. In a convergent manner, the studies on the application of IFRS and on management accounting in SMEs in Loja emphasize that accounting modernization and financial standardization are not merely technical processes, but structural factors influencing competitiveness, transparency, and long-term sustainability.

Finally, the critical review of Lecture on the Lecture, by Pierre Bourdieu, revisits the discussion on habitus, field, and symbolic power in the context of contemporary academic capitalism, questioning the quantifying logic and institutional reproduction of cultural capital.

This volume confirms that continuous publication is not merely an editorial modality, but a way of sustaining an ongoing dialogue between rigorous empirical research and situated critical reflection. Thematic diversity is a strength, provided that the focus remains on the social processes that shape education, economy, subjectivity, and power.

With Issue 12, Revista Publicando consolidates its commitment to applied social science that is methodologically sound and critically aware of the Latin American contexts in which it is embedded.