Pedagogical professional performance and social projection of university teachers: contributions from postgraduate education

Abstract

The postgraduate education of teachers is a priority issue declared in the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda. Cuba, recognizes as a country priority, guarantees the gradual implementation of the policy of attention to the training of university professors and the study of the subject from an integrating conception. Towards the solution of the problem of how to contribute to improve the professional performance of the university professors of the Agrarian University of Havana, the main result that is presented is directed. A strategy aimed at teachers of various careers at the Agrarian University of Havana began, based on a quasi-experimental, longitudinal and prospective study of design and evaluation of the impact of its implementation. For this, methods based on a mixed approach will be applied. The results of its implementation are valued from socialization workshops, the criteria of users, the methodological triangulation, as well as the impact of the basic training diploma for university professors and the master's degree in higher education, obtaining as main results: the design, implementation and evaluation of a postgraduate education strategy for the gradual and progressive development of the pedagogical professional performance of UNAH teachers, as well as the improvement of the teaching-learning process that they conduct. It contributed to all the postgraduate education processes that CEESA presented in the 2016-2020 period in different forms of postgraduate organization and advice.