The student, with their unique cultural, emotional, physical, psychological, and cognitive characteristics, is gaining prominence in both syllabus design and classroom dynamics. Today, it is the educational environment that adapts to the student, not the other way around. As a result, education is becoming increasingly heterogeneous. Contemporary policies support this student-centered approach, acknowledging the individual's specific interests and the singular projection of their intellectual, physical, emotional, social, and ethical capacities. Research on the present and future of education is increasingly focused on this holistic perspective.

This number of D’Perspectivas Siglo XXI features studies that, on one hand, explore the particularities of students and, on the other, reflect the diversity of goals, purposes, and missions that define the modern university within the Latin American context.