Professionalising university learning
Serge Romain Omgba
The professionalisation of university learning is a major concern for students committed to using their studies to build scientific or professional careers. It is a priority for every university, because it loses its credibility and reputation as soon as it ceases to be a centre for the construction of knowledge and skills, where learners enter, stay and leave transformed, able to exploit their many resources to accomplish the tasks assigned to them by society. This research critically examines the useful actions that the University should promote to support the construction of scientific and professional identities. To this end, it analyses the formative missions of the University, proposes a theory of learning in the service of skills training, presents the challenges of the professionalisation of learning, and identifies the forms of didactic activity that make learners operational and functional in the employment or scientific research sectors. This study proposes useful pedagogical thinking to enhance the University’s formative actions; it therefore offers practical and theoretical guidelines to support the protagonists of university teaching in the efficient achievement of formative objectives.
Keywords
Training, teaching, research, learning, skills.