Socio-professional Representations of Paramedical Students Regarding Their Future Profession

Autores/as

  • Abdelmonim El Fadely Laboratory in Didactic, Education and Training (LIRDEF) - Normal Graduate School, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech (Morocco) http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1973-7283
  • Mohamed Ait Babram Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Laboratory of Mathematical Population Dynamics (LMDP), Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1958-466X
  • Samiha Lidrissi-Hassani Laboratory in Didactic, Education and Training (LIRDEF), Normal Graduate School, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco. http://orcid.org/0009-0007-5685-2236
  • Rachel Morlot Laboratory of psychology: Relational dynamics and identity processes, Faculty of Humanities, University of Burgundy, AAFE Division - P.O. Box 26513, F-21065 Dijon Cedex, France. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5561-3865
  • Sabah Selmaoui Laboratory in Didactic, Education and Training (LIRDEF) - Normal Graduate School, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech (Morocco) http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3015-7546
  • Boujemaa Agorram Laboratory in Didactic, Education and Training (LIRDEF) - Normal Graduate School, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech (Morocco) http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2813-3422

Palabras clave:

Socio-professional representation, Paramedical professions, Education, Free and hierarchical associations, Training

Resumen

The phenomenon of specialization among nursing categories can lead to difficulty in constructing a common professional identity and generate issues of professional adaptation. This study aims to explore the socio-professional representations of paramedical students and compare these representations among two categories of students. The research targets students from two programs: "nursing care" (n= 562) and the second "healthcare techniques" (n=133). Regarding the theoretical framework, this study uses the structural approach of social representations. Data are collected through free and hierarchical associations, analyzed through prototypical analyses, similarity analyses, and a Chi-squared test. The results emphasize heterogeneous representations, with shared elements and others specific to each group. Nursing students characterize the nursing profession as laborious and stressful. Nurses are described as autonomous individuals demonstrating professional values and interpersonal qualities. For students in the healthcare technicians' group, the representation focuses primarily on clinical practice concepts. The hospital appears, for this group, as a privileged environment for care practice. It is therefore incumbent upon various stakeholders in the nursing education field to consider the representative structures held by students in the course of their training and to implement strategies to minimize potential representational divergences.

Keywords: Socio-professional representation; paramedical professions; education; free and hierarchical associations; training.

Biografía del autor/a

  • Abdelmonim El Fadely, Laboratory in Didactic, Education and Training (LIRDEF) - Normal Graduate School, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech (Morocco)

    PhD Student at Didactics of Science and Pedagogical Engineering; Normal Graduate School, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech (Morocco)

  • Mohamed Ait Babram, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Laboratory of Mathematical Population Dynamics (LMDP), Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco.

    Full Professor, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco.

  • Samiha Lidrissi-Hassani, Laboratory in Didactic, Education and Training (LIRDEF), Normal Graduate School, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco.

    PhD student at Didactics of Science and Pedagogical Engineering; Normal Graduate School, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech (Morocco).

  • Rachel Morlot, Laboratory of psychology: Relational dynamics and identity processes, Faculty of Humanities, University of Burgundy, AAFE Division - P.O. Box 26513, F-21065 Dijon Cedex, France.

    Professor in social and work psychology; Faculty of Humanities, University of Burgundy.

  • Sabah Selmaoui, Laboratory in Didactic, Education and Training (LIRDEF) - Normal Graduate School, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech (Morocco)

    Full Professor in didactics and educational sciences at the Normal Graduate School, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech (Morocco).

  • Boujemaa Agorram, Laboratory in Didactic, Education and Training (LIRDEF) - Normal Graduate School, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech (Morocco)

    Full Professor in biology didactics and genetics at the Normal Graduate School, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech (Morocco).

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Publicado

2024-12-30

Número

Vol. 33 No. 2 (2024)

Sección

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