Sentidos y significados de la educación en la historia familiar de tres estudiantes de la Unidad Educativa Felipe Costa von Buchwald: Una cartografía social

Abstract

If the concept of education is understood as a mean for the students to become ideologically independent subjects then it is important for this process to be dialogical. In order to fulfill this objective, it is relevant to understand the constitution of the social space in which schools operate. Tools such as Social Mapping are ideal for this purpose because their flexibility allows them to depict the symbolic implications built within a space. This research portrays different dimensions of the family life of three students from Unidad Educativa Felipe Costa Von Buchwald from the perspective of educational aspirations. This institution is located in a commercial district of the city of Guayaquil, but its main trait is that it only accepts students from vulnerable areas. Determining which experiences and conditions motivated the families to become part of an institution that is located away from their own territorial context was useful to identify the meanings that are built around the education provided in the school.