Orientación vocacional y/o profesional y sociedad contemporánea: La orientación vocacional y/o profesional ofrecida en escuelas medias en Santiago de Cali-Colombia

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This research was conducted with the aim of understanding the specific characteristics of Vocational or Professional Development Programs conducted in 5 private educational institutions in the city of Cali, Colombia. To that end, we inquired into their theoretical perspectives, content, activities, educational tracks, those responsible, and conceptual beliefs and definitions around youth, work, education, and future, which are all intertwined within the different approaches; the latter, as a way to recognize how contemporary social changes were managed within each institution. For this purpose, we opted to conduct a descriptive and exploratory qualitative research where we sought to describe the phenomenon as it is in order to recount the information found. This research was based on interviews with orientation counselors in the chosen institutions. A post-conclusion analysis of the findings’ data in each institution concluded that: There are similarities in the objectives, content and activities of the conducted orientations, in spite of them being named differently, vocational or professional orientation. In all cases, the institutional goal was determined to be the orientation of young people towards choosing a professional career that allows them to continue academic training after the completion of a high school diploma. In all cases, the vocational or professional orientation was managed by the educational institution’s psychologist, whom posses the preferred background to conduct this type of work and whom are in charge of submitting the final proposed theoretic approach to implement with the young people. Finally, and directly related to the concepts behind the proposals, it was found that the concepts of youth, work, education, and future are all framed within the socio-economic conditions of the young people who are targeted by said proposals and that, although the professionals responsible for the orientations acknowledge many of the current social changes, they do not necessarily permeate the professional or vocational development programs taking place within the institutions.

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Múnera Cuartas, L. M. (2019). Orientación vocacional y/o profesional y sociedad contemporánea: La orientación vocacional y/o profesional ofrecida en escuelas medias en Santiago de Cali-Colombia. https://doi.org/10.35537/10915/77217