Abstract

HERNANDEZ, Juan Manuel  and  RODRIGUEZ, Javier. The pertinence of education from the students’ perception in a Mexican State university. Cuad. Investig. Educ. [online]. 2015, vol.6, n.1. ISSN 1510-2432.

This research shows how pertinent students perceive their University training is. This pertinence is analyzed on three central dimensions of learning that, supposedly, students acquire during their academic training, such dimensions being: learning to do, learning to live together and continuous learning throughout life. Analyzed data are obtained from the survey ‘The university reform from the perspective of students, UAMI 2014’, which was applied on a sample of 283 students. This is a representative sample of the student population with regular activity at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana campus Iztapalapa (UAMI), which is located on the eastern area of Mexico City. The analysis of the students’ perceptions referred to each of the three dimensions above mentioned is based on the design of three synthetic indexes. Results reveal that students expect the academic training and knowledge to be useful especially for 'learning to do' and 'learning to learn', but not as much as 'learning to live together'. However, according to the students’ perceptions, the concrete educational work of the university is more consistent with their expectations of 'learning to do' and 'learning to live together', than that of 'learning to learn'.

Keywords : pertinence; relevance; higher education; students’ perceptions.

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