Socio-Emotional Skills: Toward a Metacognition and Emotional Regulation use in Higher Education Internship Process

Abstract

The teaching-learning process generated within the framework of Higher Education system remain as a constant of analysis and tension. The economic and sociocultural configuration of the 21st century has evoked it a recurring idea about to have professionals who are increasingly prepared to adapt to changes and generate effective social interactions. If we look at the graduation profiles of the undergraduate programs, it is possible to quickly identify many socio-emotional skills that would be developed as part of a teaching-learning process during their undergraduate career. However, it is complex to access those aspects related to methodologies, teaching methods, tests, projects, and feedback strategies that would support this expected development. Due to this situation, the focus of this article is to generate an initial proposal to deepen the context of apprenticeship during an internship process and the possibilities of this being an instance that bring direct benefits to the socio-emotional development of undergraduate students, by emphasizing the role of the teacher who supervises this formative milestone as an actor who plays a role as a mediator using metacognition and emotional regulation. The reflection on this dimension of Higher Education hopes to initiate a discussion about the opportunities for the improvement´s internship process, and Higher Education teaching-learning process that focus on the mediation style for the development of key skills throughout life.