Resumen

PETRIZZO PAEZ, María Angela. Endogenous Development and Institutional Learning: A Recursive Relationship. Revista Venezolana de Gerencia [online]. 2008, vol.13, n.41, pp.30-48. ISSN 1315-9984.

“This article purports to illustrate how learning in public institutions can operate as a catalyst for civic education and as a key operator in the endogenous development process, shaping a recursive relationship between them. In this regard, and based on a proposal about organizational learning that is close to management sciences, institutional learning is assumed to be its equivalent in the light of what Boisier (2002) calls “social conversations" and how these contribute on the one hand to the generation of cognitive synergies among their participants and, on the other, to the construction of a discourse for political action that is more appropriate for public institutions as well as for citizens. Organizational learning processes can be observed through analyzing the discourse of public institutions and the possibility for constructing a collective memory internally. From the proposal presented, the possibility arises for observing whether, by exercising the basic functions of public institutions, that is, preserving and managing what is public, the presence of a collective and critical learning process can be seen that reverts toward the citizens and counts on their participation".

Palabras clave : Endogenous Development and Citizenship; Institutional Learning.