My SciELO
Services on Demand
Article
Indicators
- Cited by SciELO
Related links
- Similars in SciELO
Share
Mendive. Revista de Educación
On-line version ISSN 1815-7696
Abstract
NEGRIN REYES, Daniel Emerio; GONZALEZ PEREZ, Maricela María and ARTEAGA PRADO, Yairin. System of workshops to promote change and innovation in university teaching managers. Rev. Mendive [online]. 2019, vol.17, n.4, pp. 574-588. Epub Dec 02, 2019. ISSN 1815-7696.
ABSTRACT Universities as agents of change, are called to promote innovation in society, for it must be a reference in the way in which it innovates in each of its processes, transferring these practices to the students they form, as the most immediate way of which they have to transfer knowledge and innovation. For this reason managers are responsible for promoting change and innovation both inside and outside their departments. The objective of this article is to propose a system of workshops to prepare the teaching managers as change managers in the university processes they lead as a first step to transfer the innovative culture that should characterize them at present, both in their actions within like outside the university. The technique of the documentary analysis and the logical procedures of analysis and synthesis and induction and deduction were used. Based on the design and application of surveys and interviews with teachers and professors, computer tools were used to tabulate the results of the diagnosis, as well as for the creation of conceptual maps. As a result, five workshops aimed at fostering certain competencies in the heads of departments were designed, allowing them to effectively and with greater projection lead the results conceived for their fulfillment in the teaching collectives they lead
Keywords : culture of innovation; management; innovation.