Motivation of the student to enter the pedagogical career at the Universidad San Francisco Xavier De Chuquisaca

Abstract

The present research was oriented to distinguish the motivations that the student has when he joins the Pedagogy Career, for this purpose we started from a preliminary study that consisted in a poll applied to the students. This poll gave us some insights of the indicators and variables to be considered in this research. The process of information, was constructed by different stages: the first one, was destined to identify the motivations of the students: the second was oriented to the analysis and the categorization of such motivations; the third, oriented to identify and determine the motivational features that the Pedagogy Students should show when they enter the career. Then we proceeded to the comparative analysis between the motivational features that the student has and the one that the student should have. Since this comparative study, we determine the importance of helping the process of professional selection. The investigation results, have theorical and practical connotations, since we made a motivational characterization of the students that enter to the Pedagogy Career, and because we decided to fundament the importance to help in the right process of the professional election.