The process of training scientific-investigative skills in the Social Work specialty. Its characterization / El proceso de formación de las habilidades científico-investigativas en la especialidad Trabajo Social. Caracterización

Abstract

The article addressed a topic of special importance for Technical and Professional Education, related to the training of scientific-investigative skills in the middle technician of the Social Work specialty. The essential objective was aimed at characterizing the process of scientific investigative skills training in students of the medium technical specialty in Social Work at the Rigoberto Fuentes Pérez de Pinar del Río Polytechnic Center. The research was explanatory with a retrospective ex post facto design and assumed an integral or dialectical approach. For the characterization, a group of empirical methods were used (study of documents, semi-structured interviews with teachers, observation of teaching activities and survey of students) that allowed obtaining the necessary information to give an answer to the problem posed in the referred school. The instruments were performed in a sequential manner, which allowed for multiple triangulation of sequential data. The results obtained allow to appreciate inadequacies in the formation of the scientific-investigative abilities in the students of the specialty half technician in Social Work, overalls in the integral conception of the process, due in a fundamental way for the lack of preparation of the educational ones and the insufficient methodological work integrated among all the subjects of the academic year.