The third mission of the university and its multiple meanings in debate: transfer, “extension”, community engagement, co-production and social impact of academic practices
Our work displays a review of some of the conceptualizations that account for the mechanisms by which, in a broad sense, the university as an institution that produces knowledge has interacted with society throughout its recent history: what are the possible meanings of this interaction, what kind o...
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Subsecretaría de publicaciones. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. UBA
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/iice/article/view/11268 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=reviice&d=11268_oai |
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| Sumario: | Our work displays a review of some of the conceptualizations that account for the mechanisms by which, in a broad sense, the university as an institution that produces knowledge has interacted with society throughout its recent history: what are the possible meanings of this interaction, what kind of theoretical conceptualizations have been consolidated to understand these dynamics and what are the dimensions in which each one emphasizes. The work is divided into five sections, in which we present a literature review that we consider relevant and addresses, from multiple senses, “the question of the third mission” of the university at two levels of analysis. The first two sections focus on a first level linked to a historical journey of its emergence, development and governance. The third section deals with a second level in which we revisit in more detail the possible dimensions and components of the third mission of the university, focusing on the conceptualizations regarding the notion of knowledge as part of the classical process of production, transfer and use from the university to society.
Finally, the fourth section presents a review that we propose from five approaches, grouped from our own elaboration, which deal with analyzing the university-society relationship and from which analytical approaches are derived. We discuss the concept of university extension for the Latin American context, secondly the notion of social commitment (community engagement in the original English) of the university, thirdly, the notion of social appropriation of knowledge and hybridization of outreach activities recovering the literature that observes the expert-lay relationship; fourth, we present the theoretical-practical considerations of the “language of co-production” and finally, we will stop at one of the most recent conceptualizations that propose to observe the question of the third mission: the notion of the social impact of knowledge. |
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