Objective: This article aims at examining the implications of tutoring as a strategy for the development and strengthening of the pedagogical vocation in Chilean university students. Methods: A descriptive study was carried out, with a qualitative approach. An intentional non-probabilistic sample of 26 teachers trainees from a Chilean university participated in this research. After completing their experience as a tutor, a questionnaire was given, the analyzes of which were carried out through the textual corpus emerging from the open answers. The analysis considered the stages of identifying meaning units and grouping them into relevant categories. Results: The main results show that the tutors, as future teachers, show a clear disposition for the teaching and learning of the students-tutored. This process implies putting into practice empathy, solidarity, dialogue and efficient communication, and, in addition, the tutors satisfaction with the work performed. Conclusions: Peer tutoring is shown as an important strategy for strengthening the pedagogical vocation during teacher training.

Objective: The paper aims at suggesting a plan of actions periodic professional renewal as a way of training the agricultural teacher in the province of Camagüey.Methods: The authors rely on methods of analysis-synthesis, historical-logical for revealing tendencies of technical school teacher qualification; and induction-deduction for devising a conceptual framework. In addition, the documentary review of teachers periodical qualification certificates and individual retraining plans to identify technical teachers’ potential and limitations. Result: The main finding is plan of action plan for the professional retraining of agricultural teachers of technical schools in farming enterprises. Conclusion: The exploration of in-service teachers qualification reveal limitations of agriculture teachers performance and the need of updating and retraining following a plan coordinated between the university and farming enterprises.

Objective: This paper aims at assessing the didactic potentials of sympathy for literature teaching, specifically, to promote the aesthetic pleasure of literary reading. Methods: Theoretical methods such as analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive, historical-logical and ascension from the abstract to the concrete were used. Those methods make possible information processing and framework construction, particular for conceptualizing sympathy and relating to near notions. Results: An updated interpretation of sympathy is devised in this article together with a didactic approach to that notion for promoting the aesthetic pleasure of reading, based on a view of literary reading as an aesthetic and formative experience. The authors also analyze the role of sympathy in didactic strategies such as aesthetic modeling and creative writing. Conclusion: Sympathy, as an affective kind of relation, stimulates feelings favoring reading and aesthetic enjoyment, as well as concentration, motivation, and mobilizing students’ emotional and cognitive resources.

Objective: This paper aims at assessing an Android application designed for University of Havana English Language students to study U. S. A. Literature, supported on u-learning tools and concepts. Methods: The authors rely on a qualitative and quantitative methodology to construct a theoretical framework and Android Studio (2.3) to design the application. Results: The main finding is a highly appreciated application that summarizes textual and graphic information, study guides, reading suggestions and exercises satisfying U. S. A. Literature syllabus objectives. Conclusion: The application has been considered by teachers and students a useful tool to support the study pf literatures. It promotes further reading, a sound interpretation of literary pieces and its criticism and distance education.

Objective: The study aims at classifying and characterizing degree completion exercises currently used in Latin American and Iberian universities to certify bachelors’ degrees. Methods: the study was based on a theoretical systematization based on documentary review and qualitative content analysis, which enabled analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction, which, as theoretical methods of educational research, led to the achievement of the inferences and findings herein presented. Result: a typology of completion exercises variants used in Latin American and Iberian universities to certify bachelors’ degrees is described, within the framework of its diversification, which includes six types: focused on solving problems through research and innovation; focused on verifying the mastery of essential content of the university major; focused on professional practice; supporting the degree through participation in graduate programs; supporting the degree by deepening essential content of the major; and based on the recognition of academic performance during the university training period. Conclusion: the diversification of completion exercises used for degree certification is a nowadays a process in development that stems from the expansion of higher education and the assumption of this type of evaluation as an indicator of performance and quality assessment at this educational level.

Objective: This paper aims at analyzing at a descriptive level of the legal configuration of the differences, proposed by Luigi Ferrajoli, in relation to people with chronic diseases, their treatment in different legal instruments and other official documents of international organizations that proclaim and promote fundamental rights. Methods: The theoretical framework is based on the selection of direct and indirect legal sources that support international human rights law; this reviewing comprises other official documentation and examining the opinions of specialists in inclusion and human rights that has contribute papers to indexed databases and specialized electronic libraries. Result: The discursive-linguistic categories used as supporting grammatical characterizing the implicit or manifested discourse in relation to the consideration of people in a situation of illness, allowed us to observe that they do not emerge as particular groups within the connotations that allude to certain identities (sex, race, disability ...), they are only guaranteed the right to health, the rest is left out until the lost balance is recovered. This linear way of conceiving rights makes it impossible for them to participate within the cultural, social and economic dynamics, somehow establishing forms of homogenizing subjectivity of their realities. Conclusions: It is evident that the discursive thread of the legal instruments analyzed recognizes certain categories of being, allowing only some people to participate and benefit from certain rights in certain circumstances. There is evidence of the existence of categories that lead to denying differences or that establish a dynamic of legal approval of differences and consequently set up certain forms of abstract proclamation of equality.

Objective: This article aims contributes as a scientific result the historical characterization of the process of formation of participative professional competences in the profile of the social sciences, with emphasis on the community context. Methods: The methods used at the theoretical level were the historical-logical, the analytical-synthetic and the inductive-deductive and the empirical level, the analysis of documents. Result: Knowledge, character and methodological treatment around community participation and intervention in university training were selected as indicators. Based on their analysis, three historical stages from 1990 to the present were unveiled, in which the main trends in the training process in Cuba of the profile under study are identified. Conclusion: The research constitutes a theoretical antecedent necessary to support a pedagogical model conducive to the formation of the community intervention competence in the graduates referred for the achievement of social transformation, specifically in the community context, as an expression of the relevance and quality of performance professional in this field.

Objectives: The papers focuses on devising a model of kindergarten teachers’ education for training them in preventing children’s language and communication disorders. This model promotes individualized practice in kindergarten teachers’ professional performance. Methods: The authors rely on theoretical methods such as analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, critical evaluation of bibliographic sources, as wells as on interviewing, surveying and observation. Results: The main finding is a framework of foundations, principles and premises describing the theoretical core of the afore mentioned model. Conclusions: The study contributed a pedagogical model devised to give a new meaning to kindergarten teachers education to ensure the prevention of language disorders in pre-school children.

Objective: The paper aims at communicating a theoretical construction based on a contextualized approach of the teaching of Cuban history to engineer students that favors learners motivation. Methods: The authors rely on theoretical methods such as analysis and synthesis, historical and descriptive procedures and the document analysis from the perspective of systemic-structural and functional approach. Likewise, they use assessing scales, surveys, observation and the Motivated Strategies Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ). Results: The main finding is the description of a didactic model oriented to contextualizing the teaching of Cuban history to engineer students that favors learners’ motivation. Conclusion: Engineer students drives and motives to study history may be favored by devising a model focus on the study of local historical events, the history, means and resources of the profession through time on the grounds of strategies tailored to meet individual professional needs.

Objective: This article aims at suggesting a family counselling strategy to encourage elementary students independent study Methods: The authoress rely on theoretical methods such as analysis, synthesis, and functional structural approach to construct a framework including the guidelines of the proposed strategy and devising phases and actions to be carried out. Empirical techniques such as survey, interview, and the pedagogical experiment allow researchers to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategy in the school practice. Result: The main finding is the family counselling strategy to encourage elementary students in the context of family relations. Conclusion: Family education schools, as a key process of counselling strategy, allows to prepare families to face their children’s independent study activities and to contribute to the acquisition of habits and skills in school children.

Objective: The paper aims at describing the use the “De nuestro idioma” video program to improve university students’ verbal communication. Methods: The authoress relies on methods such as documentary analysis to construct a theoretical framework related to the use of audiovisual aids, the diagnosis and survey of students and teachers to determine students’ communication difficulties, and teachers’ ability audiovisual materials in their lessons, and modeling to devise the proposed system of activities. Results: The main finding is the system of activities devised to use “De nuestro idioma” video program effectively, as well as the selection of the videos according to each functional part of the language lesson. The system of activities fosters students’ language development outside the classroom. Conclusions: The use of audiovisual aids in education is motivating, it arises students interest in a given topic, and facilitates instruction. That is why the inclusion of “De nuestro idioma” audiovisual TV program” functions as a didactic tool to reinforce, grammar, appropriation of structures, and communication improvement.

Objective: The paper aims at describing a model of remote social service to prepare the student of the Higher Education Institutions of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) areas for jobs, based on their competencies in using ICT and the organization of a digital learning ecosystems. Method: The fact that, according to law, in Mexico social service is mandatory to obtain a professional degree certification was sued as a theoretical framework. On such basis, an operational matrix of variables was devised to outline the model proposed and revealing the method to be used. The use of the Delphi method as a prospective tool and he Likert scale allow to assess the proposal and knowing the surveyed subjects’ attitude towards it. Results: The study revealed that teachers are convinced that with the support of the student the most relevant and recognized technological, pedagogical, and administrative trends in the world of distance and virtual education could be integrated into the IES. Thus, guaranteeing the final training of the student in the STEM knowledge area, complying with the social service at a distance and applying their knowledge for the benefit of the IES community to which they belong. Conclusion: The proposal helps to explain that a model of distance social service that integrates the leadership of the teacher and the student digital fluency contributes to the creation a digital learning ecosystems in order to reduce the existing lag at university institution, shown in the Horizon NMC report on trends, challenges and technological developments that impact teaching and learning.