Hacer ciencia y producir de conocimiento: impacto en las universidades y en los profesores investigadores

Abstract

The Mexico Program for Professional Teacher Development, of the Ministry of Public Education for the higher level, seeks to professionalize the research professors so that they reach the capacities of research-teaching, technological development and innovation and with social responsibility, are articulated and consolidated in Academic groups generating an academic community able to transform their environment. It offers the same opportunities to all state public universities to obtain the support provided by the Program. It also evaluates and documents the collective ways of knowledge production of the academic members in State Public Universities (UPE), allows us to interpret the changes that these ways are having in the UPEs in organizational structures and in research groups from different disciplines, and from then on, to make proposals for the construction of desirable scenes for the improvement of the collective work within the academic groups. For the present article it was proposed the objective of identifying the experiences in the academic groups in view of the incentives and obstacles in the production of the knowledge through a qualitative study documenting the cases of the academic groups, two public universities that integrate together to other UPE, Network of Studies on Educational Institutions and it was documented the experiences of the research project of the same using the Technique of Focus Groups, presenting the results, the conclusions and references consulted.