El docente en el contexto de su labor de investigación y producción intelectual en la Universidad Nacional Experimental “Francisco de Miranda”

Abstract

Research together with intellectual production in the context of teaching action is constituted as a core function of university academic staff, which makes it possible to generate knowledge in various fields. Therefore, in the present study, from an experiential introspective thinking style, it is shown how the process of investigating is oriented by those who mediate learning. The general purpose was: To base, through a theoretical construct, the educational practice of university teachers in the context of their research work and intellectual production at UNEFM. Revealing with it, the current situation regarding the activity of research and intellectual production in university professors. The qualitative study was oriented within an interpretive epistemological approach and resorted to the grounded theory method in the version of Strauss and Corbín (2002), applying the procedure of coding, categorization and finally the theoretical construction. The informants were 4 teachers selected according to the criteria of homogeneity and accessibility. For validation, the reliability criterion of Lincoln and Guba (2005) was adopted. As a result, a theoretical construction is presented, made up of categories of analysis that explain the teaching educational practice in research and intellectual production, showing that it has great shortcomings (lack of budget, materials and supplies, lack of motivation, among others) requiring to be transformed to adapt to the dynamics of a global, changing, complex and contradictory world.