Abstract

JUANES GIRAUD, Blas Yoel; REYES ROJAS, Pamela; AMAYA LOPEZ, Carlos  and  CEDENO ESPINOZA, Emilio. Metropolitan network for citizen participation. The link with society from the university context of the UMET. Universidad y Sociedad [online]. 2021, vol.13, n.4, pp. 512-520.  Epub Aug 02, 2021. ISSN 2218-3620.

The linkage with society is one of the three substantive functions of the current university, however, historically, it is the function with the least number of participants in higher education institutions. The Ecuadorian reality is based on the concept of different institutions and social ties, which explains the lack of identity for this function in some of them. Through their link with society, universities have a challenge to achieve vitality in dialectical and productive relationships with society. In this way, the management of the linkage with society needs to be transformed into a strategy to consolidate its development in the educational institution; Therefore, the linkage with society is considered an urgent condition for the university legitimation with its environment and the good living of the community. The following paper aims to assess from the perspective of the Metropolitan University, the linkage that exists between linkage as substantive processes and society, for which a theoretical analysis is made of the elements that sustain the process, and how it manifests itself in the Institutional Project Metropolitan Network of Citizen Participation, in the first semester of the year 2021.

Keywords : Bonding; higher education; society.

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