Abstract

ESPINOZA-RIVEROS, Víctor Benjamín. Incidences of internships or professional practices in the university education of the National University of Asunción, Paraguay. Rev. cient. cienc. soc. [online]. 2022, vol.4, n.1, pp.23-32. ISSN 2708-0412.  https://doi.org/10.53732/rccsociales/04.01.2022.23.

The objective is to analyze the incidences of internships in university education at the National University of Asunción, Paraguay. It was based on a quantitative cross-sectional and descriptive analysis. 150 students were obtained from the population, 109 samples and 88% response rate (92 participations) in the convenience survey and five interviews were conducted by trial. A 12-question questionnaire was sent to the students via email and WhatsApp, plus a five-question guide for the interview, between October-December 2018. The inclusion criteria for the survey were belonging to the institution, being registered in the coordination of internships, being a regular student from the 6th semester onwards and voluntary participation. And for the interviews, belong to the institution, have a position related to internships and voluntary participation, 46,7% thought that the duration of the internship is not adequate, 51,1% consider it as a means to apply the knowledge acquired at the university to the labor field and 82,6% affirmed that it is an experience of a formative nature for their career. Students consider internships to be relevant to their career and their application leads to previous experiences before launching into the labour’s world.

Keywords : University; training; teaching; higher education; education; Paraguay.

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