Academic training of the student in social Work and incidence of his citizen praxis

Abstract

The formation of practitioners in the Social Work career of the University Center of Northwestern San Carlos University of Guatemala, linked to its political practice of knowledge; a process that also involves the coordinator, facilitators and settlers, does not contribute significantly to the change of mentality, attitude and emancipatory behavior of the population. Objective "To establish the academic formation of the student in Social Work and the incidence of their citizen praxis". Longitudinal research, panel type. Observation, focus group and in-depth interview methods. Meeting and visit techniques. Qualitative or opinion sampling and Atlas.ti for categorical analysis. Results: non-existence of epistemological-andragogical macro-oriented strategy of methods, methodologies and activities adequate to different contexts to strengthen citizen praxis, autonomous difficulty of practitioners to overcome methodological-pedagogical practices in the face of traditional training that limits appropriate proposals, limited time of inhabitants for their citizen participation due to daily economy, especially informal. Conclusion, factors such as: curricular design-evaluation, administrative norms of practice, weak union organization, lack of andragogic exercise in practice, weak autonomous development of practitioners and effects of coronavirus-19 influence praxis processes for population emancipation, which implies curricular evaluation, strengthening andragogic group-communal theory as well as union strengthening that stimulates student and population leaderships for citizen participation.