| Categories |
Subcategories |
Recording unit |
| Knowledge acquisition and management |
Informal expansion of knowledge |
“the internship allows us to learn things that would not be possible to learn sitting in a classroom” (R11); “we learn with the people we deal with during our internship” (R37) |
| Mobilising curricular learning |
“I found myself compelled to take advantage of everything addressed in the theoretical part (...) to be able to deal with the real problems” (R14); “Everything that was learned (...) before the internship is quite lacking (...) and I think it only gets clear for us when we are interning (R49) |
| Development oftechnical skills |
Technical skills in general |
“it allowed me to get the technical perspective of the social educator, to look at a whole as being more than the sum of its parts” (R2); “All of this allowed me (...) to acquire technical skills that will help me as a future social educator” (R42) |
| Teamwork skills |
“I learned that any socio-educational intervention is valued and makes sense when developed in a network" (R1); “getting to know and deal with various professionals who have different working methods, which will be an asset for the future” (R3) |
| Technical intervention adapted to populations and/or contexts |
“I came into contact with different contexts (...) for this reason I developed a set of professional skills that will undoubtedly be an asset for the future” (R24); “The gratification felt by the possibility of such diverse activities (...) resulting in complementary learning of knowledge alluding to the specificity of actions” (R32) |
| Personal and relational development |
Personal skills in general |
“interning with these people, in addition to helping me to improve personal skills (...)” (R7); “I feel I was given the opportunity to grow as (...) a person” (R28) |
| Improvement of personal characteristics |
“in terms of my personality, it made me more uninhibited, I learned to relax more (...) but also to be a little less transparent and more serious” (R6); “I tend to be too much of a perfectionist but I learned to be happy with achieving small goals, step by step” (R9) |
| Identity and socio-moral enrichment |
“personally, I began to realize that everyone deserves a new opportunity (...) they often only need someone to make them go in a new direction” (R34); “it was important to get to know myself when it was time to play the role of social educator with students” (R45) |
| Resilience of the intern |
“I now understand that resilience is a characteristic (...) to take into account (...) a specialist must know how to overcome and face adversity, unforeseen events and constraints” (R1); “I learned to find solutions to problems that may arise” (R46) |
| Strengthening professional identity |
Reinforcement of bond to profession |
“it helped me to be even more certain that it is this [target group] I want to work with during my professional life” (R7); “direct contact with reality made me realize that it’s really what I want to do for the rest of my life” (R11) |
| Importance of experiences provided |
“with this internship (...) I witnessed large and valuable moments that will leave marks” (R1); “With the internship (...) I will take one of the best experiences of my academic career with me for life” (R33) |
