Abordagens da Gestão da Informação e do Conhecimento nos currículos dos cursos de pós-graduação em Ciência da Informação no Brasil

Abstract

It presents the approaches of Information Management (GI) and Knowledge Management (GC) in the curricula of postgraduate courses in Information Science. The GI aims to identify the information needs, map the formal information flows in the organization's environments, as well as its collection, filtering, analysis, organization, storage and dissemination. As for CG, we can consider the systematic process of identifying, creating, renewing and applying the knowledge that is strategic in the life of an organization to increase its competitiveness through the valuation of its intangible assets. In this perspective, GI and CG become indispensable in any organization and can be applied by the information professional in the exercise of his / her function and in his / her social responsibility, so that it is inserted in the levels of the Information and Knowledge Society. This research had as general objective, to analyze the contents of the disciplines on GI and GC offered in the postgraduate courses in Information Science at the national level. Methodologically, it has as a universe, institutions of higher education that offer the postgraduate course in Information Science in Brazil. Thus, it was considered the need to work with all the universities that offer the mentioned course, to reach a broader analysis and more satisfactory results. As for nature, it is characterized as being of quantitative and qualitative approach and a study of the documentary type carried out in the web environment. For data organization and analysis it adopts the content analysis method. The results show that the programs are mostly called Information Science, which has areas of concentration that are pertinent to the content of the GI and GC discipline and have been offered at the masters and doctoral levels. The research lines incorporate GI and CG in their studies. The thematic axes of the GIC subjects are predominant in courses evaluated by the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and have a great predominance of the contents of the GI and GC. The research presents positive perspectives in relation to the approaches that are being inserted in the postgraduate courses in CI at the Brazilian level. It indicates that the transformations are accompanying the reflexes of the Information and Knowledge Society towards the preoccupations with an immense flow of information and the rampant race in search of strategic knowledge for the sustainability of the organizations and the growth of the people. This reality impacts the organizations that seek every day to play their role of manager of information and knowledge