Modelos de pedagogía empresarial

Abstract

The world of work in the enterprise is another aspect of the formative process of the person and, therefore, the enterprise is another field of activity for professionals in Pedagogy. Contrasting with the traditional approach of educational reflections and actions within the school environment, other models are presented here aiming at finding an answer to the issue of formation in the non-school context. This is the case of entrepreneurial Pedagogy which, as a branch of general Pedagogy, intends to form persons in the environment of the enterprise and to educate in human capacities, integrating the technical and ethical guidance.

Actions aimed at training for work in the enterprise are a specialization of Pedagogy since the start of the XX century. The concept “entrepreneurial Pedagogy” was coined in Germany in 1932, to refer to the branch of the pedagogical discipline aimed at contributing, from reflection and educational praxis, to the aims of the enterprise.

As a discipline, i. e. as a content that turns into teaching-learning matter, entrepreneurial Pedagogy studies, among other aspects, the relationship between education and work and the space where that relationship takes place, from two perspectives: the one that stems in the idea of what the correspondence between education, work and enterprise should be and formulates with it a theoretical-normative model as it is the case of the organizational learning model, and the one that analyzes the development of a practice that gradually becomes common until it establishes, at different moments in the history of the training for work in the enterprise, the arts and crafts model and the industrial/manufacturing model.

Both the crafts model and the industrial model refer us to the historical roots of training for work in the enterprise, while the organizational learning model leads us towards the main training tendency for work in the enterprise, faced to the twenty-first century.