Motives for entering to the careers of Pedagogy in students of first year at Universidad de Concepción

Abstract

This investigation had as main aim to describe the motivations of first year students of different specialties of Pedagogy to pursue studies in these careers. The sample corresponds to voluntary students of both sexes of 11 careers of Pedagogy at Concepción University. The information was gathered by means of a questionnaire. The results demonstrated that the majority of the students of first year decided to study Pedagogy as their first preference (65 %). Three careers with higher percentage of students who chose them in the first option are A Pedagogy in Musical Education, Pedagogy in Spanish and the Pedagogies in Physical Education and Differential Education. The specific behavior of the students of Pedagogy to postulate in the first, second, third or fourth option seems to change according to the career. Finally, the majority of the students present intrinsic motives for entering to careers of Pedagogy.