La Relación del Plan y Programas de Estudios con la Práctica del Servicio Social para una Formación Integral. Administración Industrial. UPIICSA

Abstract

The present investigation has the purpose of analyzing the relationship between the social service practice results in both the public and private sectors, with the study plan and programs of UPIICSA’s Industrial Administration career, for an integral formation so as to have elements to propose alternative feedback for its standards. The identified problems for this investigation are: 1) the students’ state of knowledge during the social service practice, should be included in the elaboration of the study plan and programs; 2) its systematizing and information analysis should be made with the participation of the academicians; 3) the modification of the current conception of the social service is needed, so that it can be revalued and stop being seen as mere paper work; 4) the establishment of mechanisms for evaluation and assessment are also needed for follow-up procedures and administration; 5) the commitment of the institutes of higher education (IES) is needed for the integral formation of the students involving the social function of the study programs and their academic profiles. Due to the aforementioned, the enunciated problem was: to what degree are UPIICSA’s students social service practices in the public and private sector related with the study plan and programs of the Industrial Administration career? The research methodology corresponded to the mixed type. The sample was made up of: 65 students to whom a questionnaire was applied; 11 academy presidents, the chairman of the Industrial Administration career, and the chairman of the department of Student Services and Educational Counseling. They were all interviewed, as well as; the revision of 20 official documents related with the social service. Among the results it was detected that most of the service lenders had the appropriate career profiles, however, nineteen activities were identified which require more knowledge and abilities than those provided by the student’s egress profile. The most outstanding were: information systems, as well as communication abilities, and their attitudes. In conclusion, at this time, there isn’t a relationship between the results of the social service and the study plans and programs from the academic and administrative areas, which in itself limits its impact since the social service is treated as mere paper work, without analyzing the results obtained through its practicum. Due to the aforementioned, a proposal that integrates three necessary criteria so that the relationship between the results of the social service practice and the study plans and programs were defined. These criteria are: the academic, by means of the creation of a committee which evaluates the information emitted by the service lender; the administrative, with the purpose of integrating the documentation related with the curricular social service aspects for the development of the practicum; the social, whereby the evaluation of the performance of the lender is taken into account in order to know the student’s development in the sector where he/she carries out his/her social service practice.