Professional articulation nodes in educational guidance for the health training of the psychopedagogue

Abstract

Introduction: in the Cuban Professional Model, the training of the psycho-pedagogue as a health promoter is a priority, although theoretical-practical insufficiencies persist in undergraduate education that limit their performance in educational guidance towards health and sexuality.

Objective: to theoretically substantiate the training of the psycho-pedagogue as a health promoter, based on the articulation nodes of the professional content of the professional performance mode of educational guidance.

Development: inductive-deductive and analytical-synthetic methods were employed, as well as a structured bibliographic review in three stages (identification, review, and extraction). Articulation nodes are defined as processes that transverse the curriculum. Type 1 correspond to the Main Integrating Discipline and Educational Guidance; type 2, to general categories (education, learning, health, sexuality); type 3, to specific methodological concepts of guidance. Professional contents (knowledge, skills, and values) and training levels (familiarization, systematization, and consolidation) are structured, with investigative work practice as the integrating axis that articulates the academic, work, and research dimensions, establishing complementary relationships among the nodes.

Conclusions: the determination of these nodes allows systematizing the training of the performance mode from the theory-practice relationship, integrating the substantive university processes. This favors a competent, creative, and committed psycho-pedagogue to health promotion, capable of overcoming the identified insufficiencies and responding to contemporary socio-educational demands.