Mediation as an emerging profession: current training from Higher Education

Abstract

Mediation is an emerging professional activity that has poorly defined his own competences for his professional labour, fact that concern to the current training strategies from Higher Education. Because of that, it is necessary to work towards the constitution of a common academic curriculum that favours homogeneous, quality and relevant training for the social recognition of an emerging profession. Through a qualitative methodological study with a descriptive research design that has apply the documentary analysis by MAXqda software, we have studied the current training strategies in Catalonia and we have identified the core competences to the mediator labour that could be a foundation for nationals teaching models.