Pedagogic competitions in the educational of Administration of Companies of the Metropolitan University of Ecuador / Competencias pedagógicas en los docentes de Administración de Empresas de la Universidad Metropolitana de Ecuador

Abstract

The term competence has strongly occupied the process of continuous training of teachers at any level of education, which is not new in its name, but deserves new connotations as a keyword in training programs. The objective of this article is to develop a continuous training strategy structured by stages and actions, conceived from the reflective educational practice, with the implementation of Seminars and Workshops in the Business Administration career of the Metropolitan University of Ecuador. The dialectical-materialist method predominated as a general method, which made it possible to operate with its laws, categories and principles and integrate the rest of the methods of the theoretical level and the empirical level used. Among the main results, the marked trend in the continuous training process towards technical specialization, to the detriment of pedagogical preparation, there is no correspondence between the contents and the performance that students and teachers must then have, they have a very traditional preparation, they emphasize more on the content than on the conditions in which students learn, they do not emotionally implicate students to be motivated by learning the content to be discussed, they do not ask about experiences. Focused on content, they do not attend comprehensive training. To this end, a strategy was developed that, evaluated by expert criteria, yielded satisfactory results as its feasibility and relevance were demonstrated. From this perspective, the training system for pedagogical competencies was established for teachers of the Business Administration Career.