Social responsibility as a means to strengthen research skills, research role and scientific production

Abstract

Institutions of Higher Education in Peru are subject to two complementary processes: Accreditation and Licensing. These study houses, at the local, regional and national level, put at risk achieving approval in said processes due to the scarce research, innovations and social responsibility actions of teachers. For this reason, the objective of this research was to establish social responsibility actions as a means to strengthen the investigative competencies of the driving teams in their role as research teachers at the "Piura" Public Pedagogical Higher Education School. To this end, the study is framed within the positivist paradigm, with a quantitative approach under the Action Project Report study modality, at a descriptive level. The population and sample were the teachers of the "Piura" Public Pedagogical Higher Education School. The data collection technique was the structured interview applied to teachers to find out if they had carried out research or innovations, the questionnaire was used as an instrument and then the analysis that led to the design of the actions was carried out. It was concluded that with the establishment of social responsibility actions as a means to strengthen investigative skills in teachers of the "Piura" Public Pedagogical Higher Education School, the aim was to train staff in the area of scientific research and production, motivated because it is an area where great institutional weakness has been noted.