Open AccessImplementation of teaching-learning strategies that support the Learning to Be (pillar in education) applied in the Socio-cultural education subject
Author(s) -
Ana María Del Carmen Arredondo-Muñozcano,
Adolfo Hernández-Castillo,
Mónica Lucero López-Rueda,
Luz Aurora Padilla-Gutiérrez
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista de sistemas y gestión educativa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2410-3977
DOI - 10.35429/jsem.2019.19.6.16.19
Subject(s) - acronym , soft skills , creativity , situational ethics , technician , vocational education , psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , medical education , knowledge management , engineering , computer science , medicine , social psychology , philosophy , linguistics , electrical engineering
In order to guarantee the requirements and needs of the productive sector, each Technological University conduct a Situational Analysis of employment (by its Spanish acronym AST) aiming to identify the current needs of the graduated students of each educational program. One of the room of improvement area identified is related to the deficient performance of the Learning to Be or soft skills: social skills, team work, creativity, ethics and leadership, all specific contents of the subject of Socio-cultural Education (by its Spanish acronym FSC). The main goal of this research is to apply teaching-learning strategies in FSC with the students of the certified technician level of education (by its Spanish acronym TSU) of the Technological University of León in order to improve the execution of the soft skills in the productive sector. The methodology was three fold: 1. Opinion analysis from business owners, teachers, graduated students, and students in the final stage of their technical education, through focus groups, surveys and interviews about the importance of the soft skills and how they are acquired; 2. Training sessions to teachers to design teaching-learning strategies; 3. The implementation of these strategies in test groups and the evaluation of the outcomes. The goal is to replicate the strategies in the rest of the subjects.