1. It is evident the great vocation that you feel in the performance of your work, what was it that attracted you to teaching in the first place?

First of all, without a doubt, to empathize and identify with young people. During my time as a student I remember being very critical and a little rebellious (smiles) as all young people are and I aspired to change the world starting with teaching. As a teacher, I wanted to transfer what I would have liked to have been transmitted to me at that time and be able to correct what I considered inappropriate.

2. Would you say that after so long those first perceptions were correct?

That first attraction that I felt for teaching has been compensated, but I have also been fascinated by other facets, such as dealing with students, being able to transmit values, promoting reading and encouraging the creativity of my students. In fact, I started teaching classes very soon, private at first to continue in academies. I really enjoy my job, I am more and more passionate about teaching and all the classes I teach.

One of the best rewards is to see our former children (because that's how we see them) happy and with their dreams fulfilled, it really is an immense joy when our former students come to visit us and tell us about their experiences as university students and share with us their new experiences, also personal… I hope you do too (Laughs).
There are many moments we spend with you, many unforgettable memories we have of each promotion.

3. What other jobs have you held?

I have held very diverse jobs before working at Colegio Alborán. I have worked as a journalist, editor, proofreader, reporter... I have worked in the Malaga City Council, specifically in the Social Welfare Area. I have also been a photographer for many years, for photographic studios or "freelance".
I had a photographic collective called “Carpe Diem” with which I carried out many photographic exhibitions and others on my own. What times…

4. Do you think that there really are different types of students or is each case individual?

I love that you ask me that question, it has always bothered me to put labels, either individually or in groups, on students, minors and young people in general. I believe that each person is unique, individual and different, therefore, you have to approach each student in a different way and adapt your teaching method and your relationship, as far as possible, to each particular case.

5. What led you to obtain a Doctorate in Communication Sciences? What is the topic of your doctoral thesis?

I am interested in the media because they have an essential role in shaping social values. These configure the world that surrounds us and from which we obtain the information that determines our conception, both of our world and of ourselves, they even propose guidelines for conduct.
I have tried to evaluate the influence of television advertising in the process of socialization of minors and also to analyze the models and techniques used by advertising aimed at minors and young people in the configuration of perceptive and cultural habits. It is important to know how to identify the values ​​that advertising currently transmits and connect them with the effects that current advertising has on children and youth audiences. That is why I got my doctorate in Advertising and Childhood, carrying out numerous field studies and analysis of the most important television campaigns aimed at this audience: the Back to School Christmas campaigns.

6. Specifically in the teaching of the Spanish language, what changes have you found in recent years in the student body?

Many changes, some very good and some not so much. Today students are more intuitive and quick, perhaps more supportive and empathetic, generally to the detriment of interest in reading and spelling.
The reality is that they are very immersed in social networks that accustom them to a very fleeting and superficial message, resulting in an abandonment of the depth in their relationships and their way of expressing themselves.

7. Everyone knows your love for the Language and your obsession (if I may say so) for its spelling rules. If you could choose one feature of the language and another of our Language, what would it be?
(Laughs) Of language, the ability to communicate, to be able to transmit emotions, feelings or ideas. It can be the most obvious, but also the deepest and most beautiful.

Of our language, what undoubtedly attracts me the most is the richness in vocabulary. Wealth that, in part, is being lost due to the very limited jargon of the new generations, which leaves a large part of our language in disuse.
Even so, we must not forget that our language is alive, it changes and evolves, leaving some words forgotten and rescuing others, which opens up an inexhaustible path of renewal. Likewise, it is transformed thanks to linguistic borrowings, for example some meaningful adaptations, or even because of some unnecessary foreign words in our language.