Twenty-fifth International Conference on Learning

Abstract

Social representations create cognitive systems, which are organized from stereotypes, values, norms, personal forming ourselves as individuals within society. In this context, this research paper aims to identify which are the social representations that students have entering the first year of the career of Special Education Teacher respect to the identity of the professional who wishes to form, and then interpret and contrast them with the Graduate Profile established by the Catholic University of Temuco, analyzing the public and social function of this profile. The research considered as first year students research subjects and data collection was performed using interview techniques and semantic networks; which were applied to two groups of participants. The results show that the subjects have a greater knowledge regarding the general competences of the profession, but not of the specific ones, relating the concept with the role and not with the discipline.