Diagnosis of the initial state of professionalization of the chemical content specialty Agronomy

Abstract

The new task posed by Cuban society, regarding the improvement of new economic actors, demands the training of Middle Technicians in Agronomy as a priority of the policy of the Cuban state. The above requires a professional vision of the chemical contents applied to Agronomy; while updating the country's economic model requires a qualified workforce to transform agriculture and bring it to high rates of productive efficiency. In this direction, as the objective of the article, the state of the professionalization of the chemical contents of the Agronomy specialty in pedagogical praxis was diagnosed. For this, empirical methods were applied: document review; surveys of teachers, tutors from labor and students entities; observation of the teaching-learning process of Chemistry and pedagogical test. Likewise, the following were used as materials: the study plans for the training of middle technicians in the Agronomy specialty (Ministerial Resolutions 109/2009, 106/2020), the programs for the subjects Chemistry and Basic and specific vocational training. The results obtained confirmed the manifestation of insufficiencies in the professional training of the student of the Agronomy specialty, from the limited possibilities to establish essential relationships between chemical and professional content, for the solution of agrochemical problems. These allowed us to confirm the main causes that gave rise to the problem in question. Furthermore, they justify the need for a new proposal that allows the solution of agrochemical problems in the essential contexts of Technical and Professional Education.