Abstract

CAMPOS-HERNANDEZ, Miguel-Ángel; GASPAR-HERNANDEZ, Sara  and  VELASQUEZ-BURGOS, Bertha-Marlene. Discourse and representations of students of Bacteriology and Social Work. Rev. iberoam. educ. super [online]. 2015, vol.6, n.15, pp.50-70. ISSN 2007-2872.

The article analyzes representations of students in the fifth semester of Bacteriology and Social Work of the University - Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia, have of their own professional training based on a socio-cultural and sociolinguistic approach to analyze their answers to a questionnaire with open questions. Great representational diversity was found on their professional training among the students of each group in spite of sharing experience, training and educational processes; said situation shows wide sociocultural potential to face their education and job entry, but also revealed a weak construction of professional identity for each course of study; similar findings were produced between the courses of study in spite of belonging to dissimilar professional fields.

Keywords : professional education; social representation; discourse.

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