Abstract

GARCIA LOBO, Ligia Nathalie  and  ANIDO RIVAS, José Daniel. University functions as the basis for generating skills oriented to codifying local agricultural knowledge. Acta Agron. [online]. 2016, vol.65, n.1, pp.58-64. ISSN 0120-2812.  https://doi.org/10.15446/acag.v65n1.47515.

This article aims to establish links between local (popular) agriculture knowledge and academic knowledge in order to codifying a local know how, in a territorial development process framework. A theoretical model, in which the mechanisms for certification of local knowledge systems was set, through the development of extension, research and teaching functions of a new university curriculum. It was based on competencies approach. The research project considered central rationalist guidelines of critical realistic approach, corresponding to a stage of the explanatory nature proposed in the so-called Variability of Scientific Research (VIC) model. Main findings show that factor' systems in the model have high levels of consistency with certifying agricultural education systems along the undergraduate curriculum

Keywords : Certified knowledge; curriculum; non-certified knowledge; rural territorial development; Venezuela.

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