Prologue

P R O L O G U E

Innovation is an activity or process that allows us to generate desirable changes and improvements in the face of a problematic situation in daily practices or in the spaces in which they are inserted. Authors such as Morrish (1978), Havelock and Huberman (1980), Langoüet, (1985), González and Escudero (1987) and Restrepo (1995), agree that innovation can be considered as a polysemic construct and assume that it must be deliberate, planned, specific and evaluated, after a sufficient time, in relation to its pedagogical and social objectives, in the understanding that it contributes something different or new to the context in which it is applied.

Icons magazine emerges as a tool for educational complementarity, becoming a necessary space for students of the University of Business and Petroleum to have a means of dissemination, and the opportunity to generate opinion, express their artistic capacities and reflect on various issues. , in permanent dialogue with the national reality. On the other hand, and for the student area, this magazine provides an important space for the publication of outstanding student work, within the framework of the different subjects, constituting an additional stimulus in favor of the quality of the teaching-learning processes that is given. in the classroom.