Título en español.

Abstract

Based on the research proposal, "Between the university and the community: Promoting community development and social research in the Caribbean from the perspective of race and gender" carried out with the support of the Atlantea Exchange Program in 2006, this essay analyzes the work of professors and students from Humacao and Río Piedras UPR campuses, who participated in a Community Communication Workshop in the community of Piñones as well as in an exchange trip with community organizations in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Through the description of these projects, this essay analyzes the most recent debates on the construction of social-scientific knowledge from the perspective of inter-university and inter Caribbean service learning and from a racial and gender perspective. In a way, we propose to theorize about the relationship between university and community, situating this practice in the human development paradigm. This emerging paradigm has had quite an impact on recent years, particularly in the Dominican Republic since the main office of the Human Development Program for the Caribbean and Latin America is located in this country. The results presented here are aimed at professors and students with the goal of guiding them in future exchange, research and collaboration projects, and all those interested in developing community policies in the Caribbean/ Latin American academy that would guide academic, pedagogic and scientific work towards a pedagogical model of our own.