College students. Roses... thistles and nettles in the construction of professional identities

Abstract

The purpose of developing a description of students attending universities today leads us to deal with a problem that supports and demands different perspectives of analysis. We believe that any study on this line will require a definition -or at least one previous explanation- of the parameters that will be addressed to undertake the identification of the distinctive features of this population. In other words, what we want to know about college student?, which data should be collected and what could it being told?, what is the relevance of this knowledge and what kind of actions could it impulse? According to these problems, three main purposes encouraged the development of this paper: first, discriminate analysis lines that can contribute to a better research on college students; secondly, to advance the understanding of the psychological aspects that influence the construction of identity during the years of university education and, finally, identify actions that from universities surroundings, accompany and support the share process of building professional identities. The three sections that comprise the written deals with the three aims before mentioned. Results emphasize the relevance of focusing the research about educational problems according with a work perspective that decidedly implies an engagement with diversities.

Keywords

• diversidad
• auto-representaciones
• agencia
• contexto
• interacciones
• roles profesionales