PEDAGOGICAL MODEL FOR MANAGING SOCIO-CULTURAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND EMPOWERING STUDENTS AT TAHOUA UNIVERSITY

Abstract

New challenges that various universities both globally and locally are facing are not only related to professionally train skilled manpower, but also its harmonious adaptation to the socio-cultural reality and still compatible and competitive with a world that is economically, politically and culturally changing. This situation assumes that a new pedagogical and didactic paradigm accommodating socio-cultural realities and context for its sustainable and harmonious development and transformation must be developed. Tahoua University, focusing on a cultural context associated with French colonial dispensation, is still facing difficulties related to contextualization of its professional training, thereby leading not only to several shortcomings in its professional applications, but also in relation with economic and socio- cultural-historical context considered as limitation factors to socio-professional projection of universities and its outputs. The overall objective of this present article is to propose pedagogical and didactic model capable of contextualizing the professional practices through a process of appropriation of socio-cultural knowledge of the profession. Additionally, the context in which the professional is trained on one hand, and the practice of advanced scientific research on other hand, as the basis of a process of participation and formative and professional empowerment of trainees should be determined, evaluated and managed .