Comparison of citizen skills in bachelor of Physical Education students

• Main Authors: Jayson Bernate, Brayan Bejarano, David Cardozo
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Pinar del Río "Hermanos Saíz Montes de Oca" 2020-07-01
• Series: Revista MENDIVE
• Subjects: competencias ciudadanas; estudiantes universitarios; formación estudiantil.
• Online Access: http://mendive.upr.edu.cu/index.php/MendiveUPR/article/view/2049

The objective of this article is to compare citizen competencies in undergraduate students in physical education at the Minuto de Dios University Corporation. For this, the questionnaire entitled Pedagogical practices for the development of citizen competencies was applied (Zambrano, 2018), which has five variables to evaluate which are actions (3 items), emotions (9 items), empathy (7 items), environment (7 items) and critical thinking (3 items) with a Cronbach's alpha of 0,73 for the total scale. The incidental sample consisted of 450 first and last semester students. The methodology is quantitative and descriptive in scope. For the study the SPSS software was used, the statistical analysis was performed with descriptive statistics techniques. The findings showed that the variable with the highest values with respect to the arithmetic mean is ambient, with intermediate values are the variables of actions, emotions and empathy and the lower averages with respect to the arithmetic mean were presented in the critical thinking variable. In conclusion, citizen competences are linked to various ways of interpreting and valuing a sense of citizen action in relation to participation in a social constructive sense.