Consensus management
Introduction
This article addresses the model for consensus building. The postmodern scenario is characterized by rapid changes, with which different organizations and institutions are forced to fulfill their traditional functions and acquire others in order to adapt to change, which leads to an environment of multiple tensions; In this context and based on an exploratory study carried out by Dr. Aura M. Torres Reyes through Action Research, a model was developed for the standardization of processes and procedures within the educational field that can be generalized to other scenarios that require reconciling the different perspectives of the actors in the context through a synergistic exercise. The model proposes three development cycles that are framed in three continuous and elliptical processes that allow: validation, advancement, and socialization of the knowledge required to achieve consensus prior to the implementation of a process.
Science at the service of society has been a hot point of debate during the last decades (2010), perhaps due to the need to break the barrier between theory and practice that had distinguished science for a long time, where in its eagerness to get away from occult and medieval models it enters the renaissance with the aim of establishing a clear limit between the scientific and the non-scientific, therefore, the positivist models became an irrefutable science paradigm until a few decades ago, but Thanks to Kunt (1996) with his historical theory of science, an important door was opened where criticism began a path of reflection on the meaning of science.
Along these lines, qualitative models and approaches appear that rescue those phenomena that are part of reality, but cannot be addressed in their entirety by positivist models. All of this is set against the background of a scenario of constant change, where physical barriers begin to be dissipated in a context of multiple transformations.
Education immersed in these transformations has had to incorporate various theories into its structure, enter into the debate between the local and the global, between supply and demand and other tensions that lead to generating new forms of transformation of what is done in the educational scenario.
However, these transformations are framed not only in response to external demands, but also to internal dynamics. For this reason, the models that are applied both for research and for intervention in the educational setting must be flexible enough to be able to respond to all tensions, participatory to achieve a true transformation based on synergistic and systematic efforts in order to make real advances.