Promoción de la lectura en los estudiantes de la carrera de ingeniería eléctrica de la universidad técnica de Manabí.

Abstract

The promotion of reading is a social practice aimed at transforming the way of conceiving, valuing, imagining and using reading. The aim is to promote this practice as a space for the production of new senses and to foster the encounter between readers and reading materials. In this context, the purpose of this research lies in the fact of analyzing the strategies of promotion of reading from the perspective of library science in students of the Career of Electrical Engineering of the Technical University of Manabí in the semester may-September 2021. From a mixed, qualitative and quantitative perspective, this study aims to determine the functions, characteristics and importance of the promotion of reading, and emphasizes how the techniques and methodological strategies of this initiative are interrelated to improve these processes. Therefore, and considering the importance of the university library, this study investigates a current problem aimed at transforming the way of conceiving, valuing, imagining and using reading in the population group addressed.