Life skills training in apprentices from the academic period to the productive period in the Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA)

Abstract

The objective of this article is to identify the impact of training on apprentices who have completed the academic period and its correspondence to the productive period, within the framework of education for human development and the work offered by SENA. It was developed under the qualitative approach with a descriptive and analytical profile; the method used is the narrative, based on the experiences of the apprentices in two moments: academic period 2017 and practical stage 2019.

Among the main results, four fields of analysis were identified, which allowed the impacts of ethics training on the practical and productive training process to be recognized. These are self-awareness, life project, the self and the other in the subject's perspective, and interpersonal relationships.

Some of the most relevant conclusions refer to the fact that the apprentices who studied ethics in the teaching stage faced the productive stage in a better way and in particular because of their recognition of emotional intelligence, which influenced the relationship between instructors and apprentices, based on scenarios of mutual trust and retribution that were characterized by respect and solidarity training. In this sense, the diversity present in the SENA is a formative opportunity to construct narratives of overcoming and concretizing educational and work goals, which are constituted in the expression of citizens conscious of the coexistence with the other and the other in any space.