Perspectiva de innovación social en la facultad de Educación de la Fundación Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium

Abstract

This paper aims to draw the picture of the Social Innovation School of Education at Lumen Gentium-UNICATOLICA Catholic University Foundation, from the perspective of student Faculty of Education. Through a literature review of academic texts, relationships between academic practices of the Faculty of Education and contemporary theories of university innovation, specifically in the field of Social Innovation are established university. With the appropriation of the concept of sustainable development innovation diversifies, and is oriented not only to economic purposes (scientific, technological and business), also it includes social goals, political, educational, cultural or artistic. Thus, today called social innovation strategies to fight poverty, discrimination and exclusion, increase empowerment and social capital. Academic practices of the Faculty of Education UNICATOLICA are oriented towards the model of Social Pedagogy (socio-educational intervention models or seeking help generate prevention, resocialization and transformation) and the praxeological approach. This work succeeds in making the great relationship between the model and approach to the concepts of Social Innovation and linking the substantive functions of teaching, research and outreach. Which would allow the Faculty, if they wished, to generate a proposal for the development of university Social Innovation.