Más allá del conocimiento técnico. La comunicación como habilidad transversal en la formación profesional universitaria

Patricia Janet  Padilla Ornelas; Mónica Palomino García

doi:10.33064/2026docere349198

Authors

Patricia Janet Padilla Ornelas Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes
Mónica Palomino García Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33064/2026docere349198

Keywords:

communicative abilities, transversality, supporting subjects, professional training

Abstract

It reflects on the importance of communicative abilities in the different undergraduate educational programs, being these a transversal axis for undergraduate and future professionals’ integral development. It is based on the theoretical and documentary review, as well as the own educators’ experience in the Communication Department from the Social Sciences and Humanities from the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (UAA). It can be concluded that although communicative abilities are highly valued in the work sector, not all the educational programs at UAA consider these abilities as aspects of program outcomes.

Translated by Adán Israel Vázquez Alba

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Author Biographies

Patricia Janet Padilla Ornelas , Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes

She holds a degree in Organizational Communication, professor in Economic Administrative Sciences and doctor in Administrative Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (UAA). Currently, she is a teacher in the Bachelor of Strategic Corporative Communication and the head of the Communication Department in the Social Sciences and Humanities Center at the UAA. She has 16 years of experience as a lecturer in the subjects of Communicative Competences and Internal Communication and Advertisement Theory. Her areas of research include the development of communication skills in vocational training, knowledge management, the use of artificial intelligence, and internal marketing. Her most recent publication is the chapter “Digital Gap and its Impact in the Use of Gen-AI Tools in Higher Education in Mexico” from 2026, in the book Artificial Intelligence… Experiences and Reflections about Educational Research, TransDigital editorial.

Mónica Palomino García, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes

She has a degree in Organizational Communication from the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (UAA) and master’s degree in education from Universidad Interamericana para el Desarrollo (UNID). Currently, she is a teacher in the Bachelor of Strategic Corporative Communication in the Communication Department from the Social Sciences and Humanities Department at the UAA. She has 10 years of teaching experience in upper secondary education and higher education in the areas of communication, literature and philosophy. She has taught the subjects of Language and Communication, Philosophical Doctrines, Logic, Communicative Competences, Presentation of Communicative Projects Techniques, Internal Corporative Communication, Organizational Communication and Integration seminar. Her main areas of research are focused on the development of communicative competencies into professional teaching and the impact of philosophy and literature on human communication.

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