Professionalisation of the discipline preparation for the defense in the careers of engineering and architecture / Profesionalización de la disciplina Preparación para la Defensa en las carreras de Ingeniería y Arquitectura

Abstract

The Technological University of Havana declares in its mission the contribution to the sustainable development of society from the integral formation of professionals of excellence -engineers and architects- committed to the Socialist Homeland. The different careers offered in it contain in their base curriculum the Defense Preparation discipline, whose design foresees the response to social demands, based on the theoretical basis and professional practice. Its implementation, taking into account the particularities of the careers, demanded the study that aims to identify the regularities and procedures for the work of the discipline group, based on the professionalization of the teaching-learning process in the training of engineers and architects. From the dialectical-materialist conception, methods of the theoretical and empirical level and techniques were combined, such as the analytical-synthetic, document analysis, interview, pedagogical observation, discussion and review workshop, Concordance coefficient and methodological triangulation. As a result, the qualities of the professionalization concept were identified, as well as the regularities for its implementation, and the discipline preparation for the defense and its group were characterized.