Experiences and learning in the practices of interns in the accompaniment of protagonists of the Chontales Trade Schools

Abstract

Professional practices are an indispensable tool in the professional growth of the student, since it allows the integration and application of knowledge, with society and its environment. For this reason, Higher Education is a space that allows the triangulation between knowing, knowing how to do and being; therefore, the university is obliged to meet the current demands of economic growth and contribute to the development of the country through specific lines of action, such as professional practices, linking University, State and Business, which allow local economic growth and national, this cannot be visualized if there is no praxological action in the incessant transmission of knowledge to the entrepreneurs of the Trade Schools. The methodology for this systematization of experience is based on action research on good practices. An experience of interns and tutors accompanying protagonists of the Municipal Trade Schools. During the development, tools such as a prior diagnosis of need were applied, to later carry out an intervention, with the purpose of carrying out a Business Plan and the improvement of a product together with the entrepreneurs (Latorre, 2023). In this systematization, the cyclical spiral of action research was applied, starting from self-diagnosis. Then a planning of how the tutoring and improvement plan would be carried out was carried out through continuous monitoring, where it was reflected, evaluated and transformed. It was concluded in the elaboration of the business plans and the strengthening of the knowledge of the interns with a scenario of the real labor field.