Ontoepistemic vision of the binomium education – environment from the perspective of private university social responsibility

Abstract

Nowadays, there is a reality characterized by changes in all scopes, which affect
each existing organization. This article refers to a doctoral thesis whose purpose
was to generate a theoretical approach about the ontoepistemic vision of the
education-environment binomial, from the glance of private university social
responsibility, specifically at the Yacambú University. In order to support the
research and to be able to contrast with the findings, the reference to universities
and their relationship with society, university social responsibility and sustainable
development was reviewed and analyzed. This research was approached from the
qualitative perspective approach and the hermeneutic phenomenological method
based on hermeneutics. To achieve the research purposes, it involved obtaining
relevant information, through in-depth interviews; to reveal the emerging categories,
which founded the respective triangulation, guiding the contrast that generated the
theorizing process. The informants consider that despite the fact that the Yacambú
University executes actions oriented by social responsibility in the environmental
dimension, it is necessary to incorporate the stakeholders in the identification of the
successes and failures of the institution; this being important for the planning of joint
actions, for the benefit of all those involved and based of the sustainable
development objectives.