Professional pedagogical competences of the graduate in education, economics. Didactic Strategy from the Political Economy/Competencias profesionales pedagógicas del Licenciado en Educación, Economía. Estrategia didáctica desde la Economía Política

The article addressed an essential problem in the initial higher-level training of technical and professional education teachers: the training of pedagogical professional competencies. The objective was to develop a Didactic Strategy that, from the teaching-learning process of the Political Economy subject, contributes to the formation of the aforementioned competencies in first-year students of the Bachelor of Economics Education at the University of Pinar del Río "Hermanos Saíz Montes de Oca". The dialectical-materialist method was used as the methodology that guided the entire process, following a mixed approach, supported by qualitative methods (historical-logical, analytical-synthetic and inductive-deductive, modeling and systemic structural-functional) and quantitative (review of documents, interview, survey and observation); the results were analyzed from multiple triangulation of sequenced data. As a result, a didactic strategy was obtained preceded by theoretical antecedents with a brief analysis of the competences in their evolution, ranging from how they have been developed in Cuba, to those of a pedagogical nature in the university. The strategy also has a structure that starts from the introduction where the foundations of the same are determined, the diagnosis that identifies the existing strengths and weaknesses, the general objective, oriented to the teaching-learning process of Political Economy, the strategic actions specific based on the formation of productive, interactive and specifying pedagogical professional competencies, with their respective operations in students of Bachelor of Education. Economy, as well as its evaluation