Teachers Perception of Training Needs at UABC and their Referents

Abstract

A research instrument creates two discursive situations in the field of education from the linguistic point of view that shows how teachers perceive a textual referent (name of competency), ordering the list of Tuning America Latina generic competences hierarchically; and an extra-textual referent; perception of self-development in each of a list of Generic Competencies. Taking into account what John Ohala (in Chafe, 1994 pp.16) has named a contrived observation, the act of being in the right place at the right time, so this reflection work is done in the inter-semester period when teachers have less distracters and more desk work to do. The exercise aims to find out how one’s phenomenological experiences compare with others through the use of distance measured from a statistical mean calculated out of 4,558 academics, plus graduates and students pertaining to 186 universities, also considering employers, approached by the National Centers. Collaterally, this procedure will be proposed for training purposes, as a better approach, one that is based in self-perception. For that purpose 40 teachers of randomly selected groups of the Education and Humanities area of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Baja California State Autonomous University, were requested during inter-semester periods to evaluate their development on 27 concepts