Indications to create the concept "Educational knowledge distribution agent"

Abstract

As a result of the research carried out, the first aspects built to propose the concept ‘Knowledge Distribution Agent’ (KDA) to the scientific and research community are presented, with the purpose of debating the base and structure that gives it meaning and continue building its field of action in the educational sphere. 

The researcher is the educational, social, political and intellectual actor who has the greatest possibility of receiving the KDA attribute for professional practices carried out inside and outside the educational institution where he/she works. While the former are mandatory due to the salary received and because they are considered in the contract, designation and creation agreement of the institution, the latter are freely chosen by the educational researcher based on their personal and professional concerns and are conducted out of conviction and professional ethics, even though institutional support is often minimal or absent.

The distribution of educational knowledge, in addition to the diffusion and dissemination, is a professional practice of the educational researcher, which is in crisis due to the little institutional support generated by the rationality of the administrative bureaucracy, the imperatives of the audit and the neoliberal model, without omitting questions of style, prejudice, jealousy, among others, of the personnel who carry out administrative activities.

However, there are educational researchers who successfully distribute knowledge based on professional ethics, commitment, and social and cultural responsibility, with, without, and despite institutional conditions and support.