The Culture of Integrity and Citizen Participation: A Story of Experiences with University Students

Abstract

This article discusses the experience of students from the sixth semester of the February-July 2016 period of the Veracruzana University in the field of Industrial Relations in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico: "Development of labor competencies and Business coaching ". In order to create in the students a citizenship and integral consciousness, awakening the desire to contribute to the improvement of a healthier and more competent society, showing the participation that the 40 young people that took the subject had with the citizens of the locality, having Coexisting with different social groups linked to the university since the beginning of the semester: public administration, private initiative, civil association, and independent people, managing to convey a new competence acquired through the coaching process.           

The results were measured and qualified through the different competencies developed and shown by each team in the different scenarios with audiences ranging from executives to housewives, depending on which organization was linked to. The evaluation was made through the instruments designed by the students, where three evaluators took as a jury obtaining the sum and average of the evaluated items as qualification. This qualification beyond serving them to approve the subject, was the proof of having concluded a learning process in many ways. The contribution that this work made with students with different social sectors, contributed a great approach and knowledge to know how to participate as responsible citizens.