The "regional education networks, a comprehensive framework of knowledge management for university reform that contributes to the national transformation"

Abstract

Knowledge management through regional educational networks, is a mandate and institutional policy that builds through inclusive participatory processes during the ongoing process of university reform, a mechanism that allows the "organization of the new university structure" creating opportunities to deconstruct the current centralized, bureaucratic, inefficient and no transparency of the UNAH; generating new forms of organization to manage new educational responses to social demands authenticity of a new public institutions, where the connections between the University and society is mutual learning and enrichment for the UNAH learn about the new social movements, the academic units are starting their broader creative participation to positively impact the development, opening a shared management schemes, complementary and synergistic.

The networks have a meaning: to help solve national and regional problems, are content to be defined from the curriculum development of fields of knowledge demanded by the needs and potential of the DHS, and have a shape (region) defined by the capabilities and potential of the institutional structure, and articulation with other levels of the national education system.

Regional networks are organizations coordinate the various academic and administrative units to internal UNAH in different regions of the country to meet the criteria of quality, relevance and equity. Allowing a comprehensive framework for university activities in research, teaching and relationship with society, to meet the genuine needs of the nation and contribute to the potential deployment of sustainable human development, thus making possible linkage with the national vision (2010-2038) and national plan (2010-2022).

Keywords: Inclusive participatory processes; social demands authentic; new institutional publishes; shared management complementary and synergistic; curriculum development; quality, relevance and equity; vision of country; nation plan.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/rct.v0i5.516

Revista Ciencia y Tecnología, No. 5, Segunda época, Diciembre 2009: 3-21