La orientación vocacional y la formación profesional: un proyecto formativo / Vocational guidance and professional education: A formative project

Abstract

A comprehensive education attempts to foster students to be industrious, responsible, friendly, independent, innovative, sensible, and determined. This paper aims at describing a formative project devised at Enrique Jose Varona Senior High School in Holguín City. The project engaged the students in creating El Varona dice newspaper, stimulating social research activity, reporting and preparing articles as means of developing vocational aptitudes towards journalism, history, social and educational sciences. After constructing the corresponding framework critical workshops, individual and group interviews were used as methods of inquiring. The main finding was a formative project that leads to designing and publishing a college newspaper. The students’ newspaper brought a change of attitudes on the part of the students in relation to labor activity, self-education and value education, as well as its extension to other senior high schools. Keywords:

Keywords

• vocational guidance
• vocational aptitude
• vocational education