Tutorías académicas y Prácticas Profesionales:: invitación al desempeño profesional inicial en la formación trabajadores sociales

Abstract

In Chile, the universities attached to the Council of Rectors address various initiatives based on curricular innovation, so this article aims to communicate the methodological process of undergraduate academic tutoring of the School of Social Work of Bío-Bío University within the framework of professional practices. In the scenario of professional practices, academic tutorials acquire relevance in the disciplinary training, understanding these as "an activity of a formative nature that affects the integral development of university students in their intellectual, academic, professional and personal dimensions" (Ferrer, 2003: 67). The learning outcomes that allow these curricular scenarios to be achieved are: evidencing an initial professional exercise, from the foundation of the methodologies used in the intervention and its systematization, being well-founded, situated and reflexive processes, contributing to the human development and integral valuation of the subjects of intervention. This is how the academic tutorials are presented as a methodology of accompaniment in professional practices, highlighting the phases of the teaching-learning process and methodological devices used by both the teachertutor and the student, with emphasis on the reflection of their own performance.