Abstract

CORRALES-ESCALANTE, Xinia  and  HERNANDEZ-CHAVES, Carolina. Initial teacher training of the major in Commercial Education: contributions from the Costa Rican Higher University Education. Innovaciones Educativas [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.32, pp.91-104. ISSN 2215-4132.  http://dx.doi.org/10.22458/ie.v22i32.2829.

Summary: In the last five decades, Costa Rica has shown a special interest in Technical Education and Professional Training, especially in the Commercial and Services modality, which has generated the need to establish strategic actions to respond to the new challenges and opportunities of a changing world in the economic, social, cultural, environmental and technological fields. From the School of Professional Secretariat of the Universidad Nacional, there has been a response to the growing demand for quality teachers to occupy various positions in the Ministry of Education, with graduates from the Commercial Education major. Specifically they will teach the specialties of Executive Secretariat, Executive Bilingual Secretariat and Executive for Service Centers in colleges of technical and academic branches.

Keywords : teaching; technical education; commercial education; higher education; technical education teacher training.

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