University tutorials in the setting of the European Higher Education Area: current profiles

Abstract

In the new setting promoted by the European Higher Education Area, university guidance and tutorials have become more important than ever. We understand tutorials as part of the teaching responsibility in which a more personal interaction between professor and student, professor and novice teacher, or student and student is established, and whose goal is to guide learning according to the individual characteristics and learning styles of the individuals involved. Now is the time to set up guidance and tutorials systems for students –both during the training process and in their first professional steps– and for novice teachers also. Among such systems we can mention professor coaching, peer mentoring, professional tutoring in training centres or mentoring of an experienced university professor on the novice teacher.

Keywords

• coaching
• espacio europeo de educación superior
• mentoría entre iguales
• mentoring
• tutoría
• tutoría experimentada
• tutoría entre iguales
• tutoría profesional