Causes affecting educational vulnerability groups: solutions from the socio-critical pedagogy. Bolivar Province.

Abstract

Migrations, social inequality, uprooting and problems related to the teaching-learning process have a negative influence on the life of children and youngsters in Latin America, particularly in Ecuador. It is necessary to potentiate academic management in order to support vulnerable groups in correspondence with national educational policies. For these reasons, a study on learning environments and vulnerable groups in educational institutions in the Bolivar Province is carried out. Research is applied with elements of the interpretive method and fundaments of Socio-critical Pedagogy. To assess the context of these groups in the province, authorities, student advisors, and teachers filled in two questionnaires. Besides, in all cantons’ educational centers, a classroom observation guide was used with the teachers who participated in the survey. The obtainedresults detected vulnerable groups as well as the causes that influence this problem, educational vulnerability, caused by physical and mental disability, dysfunctional families, migration, poverty, and an inefficient academic management of such groups. From the analysis and interpretation of the results, the theoretical and empirical methods, this research presents a didactic guide containing active participation strategies aimed to include students in different learning environments in order to solve the problem, they will be discussed in training workshops together with educational authorities, teachers, and families of the province, which will contribute to the integral and individual formation of scholars and will support the formation of students at the Faculty of Educational Sciences.