La Participación Ciudadana desde un Acercamiento Sociopolítico. Una Perspectiva del Docente Universitario

Abstract

Community participation has been a subject of constant study, where diverse models and approaches have been generated according to the types of democracy in line with time and space of the social environment. In this article a review is made about the models of citizen participation, and the perspective that the university professor has from the community level, since it seeks to identify what the transmitters of knowledge about participation perceive, from personal to their lived experiences as an inhabitant within a community; in what corresponds to the methodology of the study is qualitative, since semi-structured interviews were applied. The objectives of this study are to investigate which are the perspectives of the university professors regarding citizen participation in community spaces, likewise, to know the causes or factors that, with the opinion of university professors, influence or not in the citizens to participate in community spaces, and to verify the existence of social actions promoted by university institutions that motivate students to participate in community activities.