SOCIAL COMMITMENT OF THE UNIVERSITIES IN THE INVIGORATION OF THE CULTURAL IDENTITY THROUGH THE ALIVE MEMORY OF THE COMMUNITY / COMPROMISO SOCIAL DE LAS UNIVERSIDADES EN EL FORTALECIMIENTO DE LA IDENTIDAD CULTURAL A TRAVÉS DE LA MEMORIA VIVA DE LA COMUNIDAD

Abstract

In higher education, new challenges to carry out the teaching process, extension and research taking into account new scenarios and the context in which our country is developed, where the primary responsibility of teachers it is the consolidation of the political-ideological and value formation. As an alternative to achieve this projected generational exchanges of students in the regular day course with students of the Chairs of the Elderly. The formation of values and cultural identity from this perspective conveyed moral and ethical values, led to changes in attitudes and behaviors. From the exchange of personal experiences are not reflected in any literature, as protagonists of events that today contribute to the history and identity of the territory and the country, training of professionals achieves a high level of social commitment and professional with an ethical conscience, bearer of professional commitments, social, fully aware of their duties and responsibilities of citizenship, linked to theoretical training, a broad scientific, technical and very humanistic, which can provide answers to social demands when society and the educational context so requires.

Keywords

• value creation
• vocational training
• the elderly
• education
• exchange generational
• cultural identity