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EDUMECENTRO
On-line version ISSN 2077-2874
Abstract
DIAZ IZAGUIRRE, Yaimara; CRUZ CRUZ, Clara Luz and SUAREZ GARAY, Ania. Professional reaffirmation in students: challenge for higher education professors. EDUMECENTRO [online]. 2019, vol.11, n.3, pp. 45-60. ISSN 2077-2874.
Background:
the professional reaffirmation is strengthened through educational influences, necessary for the student to identify with the chosen profession.
Objective:
to elaborate a system of actions for the professional reaffirmation of the students of the Degree in Preschool Education in their continuing education.
Methods:
a development research was carried out in the Faculty of Early Childhood Education of the "Félix Varela Morales" University center in the period from September 2017 to July 2018. Theoretical methods were used: ascent from the abstract to the concrete, analysis-synthesis, induction- deduction, systemic-structural and historical-logical; empirical ones: survey in the form of questionnaire, biographical-narrative interview and the technique of the ten wishes; and mathematical-statistics for absolute and relative values.
Results:
the results obtained showed a predominance of the medium and low levels, with respect to satisfaction with the chosen profession and a marked incidence of extrinsic motives; the analyzes carried out demonstrated the need to elaborate a system of actions that contribute to professional reaffirmation.
Conclusions:
it was assessed by criteria of specialists as adequate, and in applying it, the diagnosed deficiencies were modified in a positive sense: the students understood the meaning of the profession, motivation was enriched, their expectations were broadened and an adequate affective bond was created to professional performance.
Keywords : vocational guidance; education, professional; students.