Organización y funcionamiento de las UPT como espacios para la transformación de la educación universitaria en Venezuela

Abstract

This research is focused on the contribution that should be made from the Territorial Polytechnic Universities (UPT) for the political, social, cultural, territorial and economic development of the regions, based on the organizational structure proposed by the Ministry of Popular Power for University Education (MPPEU) that seeks to generate a new institutional network of university education guaranteeing the participation of all in the generation, appropriation, transformation and dissemination of knowledge. For this purpose, this research was based on a process of intellectual creation of documentary type, based on a bibliographic design that allows obtaining useful information to understand the philosophical conception of the UPT as an emerging educational model and as opposed to the traditional university system. The results show the impulse given by the construction of this new University Educational Model, which is not an adaptation or modification of the existing model; It also seeks the participation of all citizens in the generation, transformation and dissemination of knowledge, enhancing university education as a strategic project of the Nation, thus allowing a participatory practice where all the actors that make up the university community (administrative staff, workers, teachers, students and communities) build a new management model and the necessary transformation of an educational organization plagued by the technicality and scientism that characterized the University Institutes of Technology and University Colleges.