Challenges of managing the professionalization process during undergraduate training

Abstract

The professionalization process, based on the training and development of ways of acting professionally from initial or undergraduate training, is currently considered a core aspect to guarantee the success of employability skills; Therefore, in the world of work, the conception that productivity depends, to a large extent, on having a work force that is professionally competent is becoming more frequent. However, in the management that is done from the undergraduate level, in this formative process, the instructive from a traditional didactics is frequently hyperbolized, with a predominance of a teaching-educational process that does not sufficiently promote the formation and development of ways of professional action that provide the university student with tools that allow them to insert themselves in a creative and socially responsible way in the workplace. It constitutes the main objective of this work: to assess the pedagogical and didactic foundations that should characterize the process of professionalization in students during undergraduate, and the need to develop a developer didactics in this process. The dialectical-materialist method was used, becoming the methodological platform on which the investigation was erected. The main results are focused on providing pedagogical and didactic foundations that characterize this process of professionalization and a developer didactics during undergraduate training. Thus, the professionalization process in the initial training stage acquires an essential meaning because it lays the foundations for learning the profession as a starting point for future performance.