Contrapuntos en Educación. Revista del Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Formación de Profesionales de la Educación. IFE-UMA.

We open this first issue with a visual proposal that encapsulates this vision:
an Athena whose head opens, revealing a Cubist reinterpretation of “The Lesson”, with Alice and the White Rabbit as symbols of curiosity and transgression. This image not only invites us to question established structures but also celebrates “lucid madness” as a driving force for educational transformation. It is not merely a visual resource—it is a manifesto: education, in its critical practice, requires deconstruction, play, risk, and a certain degree of madness, understood as a call to transcend boundaries, to see reality anew, and to grasp the double or triple essence of ideas and things.

The contributions with which we begin this journey approach education from diverse perspectives—philosophical, sociological, linguistic, and pedagogical. Each text is a counterpoint that invites reflection, questioning, and the collective construction of knowledge. Thus, Contrapuntos en Educación is presented not merely as an academic journal, but as a laboratory of ideas, a space for intellectual resistance, and a platform for educational innovation.

We invite our readers to embark on this journey of exploration and transformation. May each page serve as an invitation to think of education not as a closed process, but as a continuous becoming, full of possibilities and challenges.

Because, as the image accompanying this issue reminds us:
“Here, we don’t cure educational madness… we analyze it, we write it, and we publish it.”

Welcome to Contrapuntos en Educación.