Conceptions and action orientations toward the environment of academic groups. Motivational, political, disciplinary and institutional elements

Abstract

This paper compares the conceptions of environment and the interactional strategies with external agents supported by academic groups of two national universities situated in the south suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through documentary analysis and personal interviews here it is displayed how conceptions and strategies can be understood in the light of political situations, subjective and collective dimensions, cognitive and institutional dynamics.