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Editorial
For the Universidad Miguel de Cervantes (UMC), it is a very relevant
milestone that the Revista Scientific (e-ISSN: 2542-2987), of the Instituto
Internacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico Educativo (INDTEC),
has invited us to participate in its number Special Education and Research,
then, although the presence of the University in our country in the area of
education is long-standing, which has allowed us to consolidate an offer of
postgraduate training in the area, the development of research, by of the nuclei
of researchers of the programs, it is an element that from this perspective is
recent data.
In that sense, epistemic communities become more important, playing a
leading role, in order to address scientific problems, as stated by Arocena
(2003), cited by Bianco and Sutz (2014), by stating that:
Trying new alternatives involves several risks, first of all of being
wrong. The very undemocratic nature of advanced knowledge
responds, in different proportions depending on the case, to its
intrinsic complexity and to the group dynamics of specialists.
Not paying due attention to the former easily leads along the
path of demagogy; neglecting the weight of the latter can lead
to dead ends (p. 75).
For this reason, it is necessary to create the structures and spaces of
research to respond both to these problems raised from scientific knowledge,
the progressivity of science and society, hence the change in the relationships
between: science, individuals and spaces of scientific production, opening
space for collaboration, interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge
management, contributing to academic development.
It is necessary to highlight that, at the university level, specifically, at the
Universidad Miguel de Cervantes (UMC), research groups are established as
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Universidad Miguel de Cervantes: Academic Productivity from Inter and
Transdisciplinarity