Professional guidance towards the specialty of Library Science at the Polytechnic Center Rigoberto Fuentes Pérez

Abstract

Career guidance is one of the most crucial issues in Technical and Vocational Education. The objective of this article is to characterize the current state of the career guidance process for first-year students specializing in Library Science, through a descriptive study. This study employed theoretical, empirical, and statistical-mathematical methods, such as the historical-logical approach, the systems approach, modeling, analysis and synthesis, document analysis, observation, surveys, interviews, and, from descriptive statistics, percentage analysis. Furthermore, the methodological triangulation technique was used, allowing for a diagnosis of the educational reality, based on the general methodological framework of scientific knowledge, the dialectical materialist method. The diagnostic study was conducted with a population of Library Science students, professors, and administrators, all from the Rigoberto Fuentes Pérez Polytechnic Center. This work made it possible to determine a group of strengths and weaknesses that characterize the current state of the professional guidance process of the teachers who carry out this activity in said center.