Social representations of professional practices in the university context

Abstract

The professional practices in university education are part of academic or curricular activities during a university profession. To this end, the social representations of the social actors on professional practices at the National Experimental University Sur del Lago were revealed. The study was assumed from the interpretative paradigm, the qualitative approach and ethnomethodology, as a research method. The information gathering technique was the in-depth interview and the instrument an unstructured script. The analysis and interpretation of the collected information was developed through grounded theory. Among the findings it emerged that the actions of the students reveal weaknesses, in the confrontation of theory with practice, namely in the transfer of knowledge which they acquire in the university towards the social sector and in the academic accompaniment of the academic tutors.