Hermeneutics of devices in the construction of school coexistence in the New Mexican School (NEM)

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of coexistence in the New Mexican School (NEM) as an emerging and problematic situation in current educational settings. Its purpose is to reflect and argue about its conditions and offer lines of intervention based on the hermeneutics of devices (HD) proposed by Luna (2024) for its transformation. This is done with analogical intentionality (Beuchot, 2025); but also as an epistemological positioning for the creation of better conditions for peaceful coexistence in Mexican schools, given the multiple problems of violence that they face. In this regard, the hermeneutics of devices is proposed from a theoretical and methodological level, in order to understand how reality operates (reference device); but also as a strategic set for its prudent attention (transformation device); and to assess the changes produced (reconstituted device). The collection invites a realistic interpretation of school coexistence as a disposition susceptible to change and offers complementary perspectives to coexistence management models and their capitalist-neoliberal logics, toward proposals grounded in human and community action that, together with their meanings, serve to conceive and implement intervention models appropriate to education and its emergencies.