La Movilización del Conocimiento en Tres Tiempos

Abstract

Mobilization of Knowledge in three times. Before, What to research? Why? For Whom?, During, How will I be evaluated? Under what considerations? How to guide my actions in order to be favourably evaluated?, Finally, Who uses my knowledge? To whom it serves? The sciences have always been concerned with contributing to solving social problems and demands. This has become more or less true according to the topics, modalities, mediations in the intervention process that the results of the scientific investigations show. Both the so-called basic and applied science have an end, a north, and an orientation that goes beyond the classic characterization of “broadening the boundaries of each discipline” or the “general promotion of knowledge”. The definition of research agendas always surpasses the mere curiosity and is influenced by multiple factors that influence it: the social relevance of a subject, the measurement of the impact of a given human action or a public policy, public or private financing that can be obtained, the search for understanding of particular aspects of the present reality or history and also its orientation towards the transformation of what is studied.In this line of argument knowledge mobilization is conceived as that field of research that strives to promote the use of scientific knowledge. The mobilization of knowledge presupposes a dual conception of the production of knowledge: on the one hand it assumes as indispensable the use of knowledge produced and therefore the use of than knowledge as part of the process of research.