The impact of training spaces on social and labor competences in the career of veterinary medicine

Abstract

The present work accounts for a proposal of training spaces aimed at the acquisition of social skills in students close to finishing the career of Veterinary Medicine of the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences of Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina. These spaces, provided by the Educational Guidance Service, were organized in four workshops inspired by the theory of social and work skills. The four main axes were self-knowledge, labor insertion, social skills and labor competencies. The four main axes were: self-knowledge, labor insertion, social skills and labor competencies. The pedagogical value of the proposal was evaluated through the application of opinion surveys and judgments of significant sentences. The approach methodology was characterized as being qualitative, consisting of an intervention strategy within the educational environment. Some preliminary results show the need to articulate social skills workshops to the curricular structure of university education. The protagonists of this process emphasize the significance that these spaces provide as valid opportunities for their formation, while they are transformed into instances of shared learning.