Methodology for the formation of transversal competences in students of technological institutes based on projects

Abstract

Competence development is a contemporary approach to the vocational training process. From this perspective, the objective of the research was to propose a methodology for the formation of transversal professional competences in students of technological institutes, based on projects that support a dynamic for their development based on the systematization of the principle of professional transferability and on the integration between the academic with the labor and investigative aspects from the instruction, education and professional growth unit, was oriented towards a quantitative approach, with a type of pre-experimental investigation. The sample under study was made up of 60 students from the Holguin Institute of Technology. Documentary analysis, systemic approach, observation, pre-pedagogical experiment, and the Chi-Square statistician (X2). After analyzing the data, it was found the existence of favorable impacts in the improvement of these competences in said students, as well as in the productivity and quality of working life of the workers of the companies where they developed the projects, which attest to the novelty. scientific research, concluding that training transversal skills allows articulating the basic and specific knowledge of a profession to solve professional problems with greater integrity, autonomy, professional creativity, quality, efficiency and oriented towards sustainable development.