Committee / Carlos FERRARO

Carlos FERRARO
Latin America & Caribbean
ArgentinaArgentina
Chair

Chairman of the Department

2018-2026

Educommunicator

Biography

Professor of Philosophy and Educational Sciences. Universidad del Salvador - CONSUDEC Faculty. Professor of Religion (San Pio the Master of Communication Planning and Management. He is also a film critic (Instituto Humanistico Buenos Aires). His professional career developed at all levels of education in the formal education system as a teacher. He also served in management at the tertiary (professor) and university level. In the 1980s he created the COEDUC Institute (Comunicar Educando) for teacher training in social media. At the end of the 1990s he served as director of the University Communication Team of the University of San Martin (UNSAM) Producer of educational videos and educommunicative publications sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Argentine Nation. Professor of Didactics in Teaching Audiovisual Arts and Social Sciences at the University of San Martín intended for graduates of the ENERC (National School of Experimentation in Filmmaking) dependent on the INCAA (National Institute of Audiovisual Arts). Publications: "Cinema in Education, Education in Cinema" (Ed Coeduc 1990). "Sequence Shot" 20 Films to reaffirm democracy (co-author) 2004. La Crujia Editions; Editor of CINEFICHAS, publication of didactic and analytical application of cinema in the formal teaching system (Sponsored by the National Ministry of Education and Culture). He is the author of the SIGNIS Argentina Dossier.

In 2016 he was elected by the continental assembly as President of SIGNIS Latin America and the Caribbean, continuing until 2026 . http://www.signisalc.org In 2014-2018 he was a member of the committee for the creation of the PROJECT ARTICULATION OF EDUCOMMUNICATION IN THE SOLIDARITY DEVELOPMENT OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENCE IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. of REDEDUCOM ( http://www.rededucom.org .

In 2001 he joined SIGNIS Argentina as a founding member, an institution of which he was president in the period 2004-2007. Director of the Department of Educommunication 2001-2004. He serves as a film jury at national and international festivals. He is part of the Cine Mundo Chico Program team and is editor of the WEB Page.

Creator and Director of the Platform of the World Department of Media Education http://www.signiesmedudesk.org . Member of the Content, Production, Research and Development Committee of SIGNIS WORLD.2024

Director/Secretary of CELAEC (Latin American Center for Education and Citizenship)

Member of the organizing committee of the SIGNIS World Youth Forum 2025.