Intersección entre la alfabetización en información y las políticas públicas educativas: formando una ciudadanía crítica y autónoma en el manejo de la información

摘要

This research is based on the premise that the Uruguayan Educational System does not provide individuals sufficient tools to acquire skills and competencies in the management of information, being that one of the reasons that explain the difficulties to improve the levels of academic performance of the students. udIt seeks to justify that the inclusion of Information Literacy into the Educational Public Policies, that guide the Uruguayan Educational System, would contribute to solve the identified problem, since, the Information Literacy is the process by which the students could acquire the information tools that are necessary to have a good information management, adopting a critical stance toward it, and achieving more autonomy. In this way, the student would be more able to graduate from the Educational System, being a citizen more suitable for the decision-making and to exercise the full enjoyment of their rights. udIt considered that a citizenship with these characteristics possess the ability to deal with the social problems in a more conscious and responsible way, collaborating with the contraction of a more just and egalitarian society. udTo achieve the above stated objective, the research was developed with a purely qualitative and analytical deductive methodology, in which was elaborated a conceptual framework with great bibliographical support, with the development of the key research concepts by the research team. After that, a set of interviews were held with qualified informants in each of the themes that are treated in the development of this research. Reinforcing these interviews was made a focus group in which participated only actors that make up the Uruguayan Educational System from various roles (students, teachers, authorities, etc.) that facilitated the establishment of the status of situation of that system from all the possible perspectives, udDeveloped these three instances of the investigation, was carried up a theoretical discussion of the problem identified and the proposal established to contribute to solve it, nurturing that discussion with theoretical concepts and the testimonies gathered in the previous stages of the research. udAfter that, were settled some conclusions and reflections that confirm the hypothesis raised by the research team and consequently the achieving of the objectives that were established by him.udFinally were exposed some recommendations taking into account the results obtain.udConcluding that, indeed, the inclusion of Information Literacy in Educational Public Policies that rules the Uruguayan Education System would contribute to improve the educational performance of students, since that would give them the necessary tools to develop skills and competencies in the information management, which also will favour his development within society. ud