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Volume : V, Issue : IX, October - 2015

NUTRITION STUDENT’S PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL SERVICE AS AN EDUCATIVE EXPERIENCE

Martha Gabriela Campos Mondragón, Diana Ramírez Briano

By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

The social service in the current educational model of the Veracruzan University is no longer a completion of requirements for the certificate, and has become into an educational experience; hereby it implies an authentic scene of learning with certain credit value.The aim of the study was to assess the social service as an educational experience self-perceived by nutrition students. An observational study was carried out, with students of social service of three different school periods. The students assessed were from the three different scholar terms of social service. Instruments were designed for data collection.The areas where the students did the social service were clinical (60 %), public health (24 %), and research, academic and sports(15 %).The 60 % of the students identified the society, 34 % the institution, and 6 % to himself as the first beneficiary of the social service. At the ending of the social service 78 % answered to have acquired new knowledge, 91 % acquired new skills and 89 % developed their values (p=0.0010). As a conclusion, the student´s perceptions were congruent with the intentions of the educational model of the university.But some conditions expressed as insufficient support might influence in order that the student was not perceived himself as the main beneficiary of the social service.

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    Martha Gabriela Campos Mondragón, Diana Ramírez Briano(2015). NUTRITION STUDENT’S PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL SERVICE AS AN EDUCATIVE EXPERIENCE. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. V, Issue. IX, http://isrj.org/UploadedData/7296.pdf

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