Sentido de vida en contextos rurales: revisión sistemática de interacciones socioemocionales y dinámicas culturales en la educación
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Este artículo presenta una revisión sistemática de la literatura indexada en Scopus sobre la configuración del sentido de vida en estudiantes de contextos rurales y su relación con las interacciones socioemocionales y las dinámicas culturales en la educación. Se siguió la guía PRISMA para la identificación, cribado y selección de estudios, con una búsqueda de artículos en español e inglés publicados entre 2016 y 2026 en Estados Unidos, España, Francia, Italia, China, México y países de Suramérica. De 1.693 registros iniciales, tras aplicar criterios de inclusión y exclusión se seleccionaron 31 estudios para síntesis cualitativa agrupados en categorías temáticas. Los resultados muestran que el sentido de vida de niñas, niños y jóvenes rurales se configura en estrecha relación con el territorio, la familia y la comunidad, y se articula en torno a tres pilares: identidad territorial y cultural, continuidad de tradiciones y vínculos comunitarios, y proyección de aspiraciones vitales ligadas al trabajo y la familia. Asimismo, las interacciones socioemocionales positivas y el reconocimiento escolar de las dinámicas culturales locales fortalecen la resiliencia, el bienestar y los proyectos de vida, evidenciándose vacíos investigativos en Suramérica y, en particular, en Colombia
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