Developing a sense of purpose in higher education students: a humanistic approach

Abstract

The work presented below was carried out with the intention of contributing to the comprehensive training of students at a Higher Education Institution. The study aimed to promote the development of a sense of life in students at the Technological Institute of Los Mochis (ITLM), through an intervention program with a humanistic approach. It was carried out with students in the second semester of the Bachelor's Degrees in Administration and Accounting, based on the design and implementation of a workshop course on "Human Development and Sense of Life", in the period August-December 2017. For this work, a qualitative methodology was used, through the action-research method; the work diary of the participants in the workshop-course was used as an instrument, in addition to complementing it with the semi-structured interview. The results indicate that from the experiences experienced during the implementation of the workshop-course activities, favorable changes were manifested in the development of the participants' sense of life, which in turn had a positive impact on their personal and academic development. The above indicates that the careful design of this type of activities can have important results in the academic and personal spheres; it is considered necessary to follow up on the program and to continue permanently with this type of actions that serve to support the comprehensive training of students in Higher Education Institutions.