Knowledge management in institutions of Lara state university education

Abstract

The present research was intended to carry out a study in the university sector about the management of knowledge from the spaces of university functions, in accordance with the provisions of Venezuelan legislation. In this sense, the purpose consisted in interpreting the knowledge management developed in the Libertador Experimental Pedagogical Universities, the Pedagogical Institute of Barquisimeto and Yacambú, based on the perception of its university actors. The ontoepistemic and methodological stance was the interpretive paradigm with a qualitative approach. Likewise, epistemically the theory started from social constructionism, revealing what was pointed out by university actors; the method assumed was the phenomenological-hermeneutical. Among the categories that emerged, the following stand out: research at the service of society, university knowledge management, the student within the community context and the teacher as a socializer of knowledge. As a contribution to this research, it stands out that the leading role of universities in the development of the country is indisputable, the generation of knowledge as a product of the investigative activity of the members of the university community responds to the social needs that arise, for which it becomes operational with activities of social responsibility and training planned and immersed in the dynamics of each institution.