Abstract
The objective of this study is to examine the social profile of students who are enrolled in Basic General Education in Ecuador. Both a descriptive and multidimensional statistical analysis was carried out based on the data provided by the National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment in 2015. The descriptive analysis shows the frequency and percentages of variables used in the investigation, and the multidimensional statistical analysis demonstrates the principal and more important criteria of differentiation and classification among the clusters of students who were investigated. These methods involve factorial analysis of multiple correspondences which demonstrate criteria of differentiation and a hierarchical cluster analysis to define clusters of students according to their common traits.
Highlights
During the last fifteen years, Ecuador has established national and international agreements regarding education
The Ecuadorian educational system encourages the use of developing knowledge, skills and values to ensure competitiveness, productivity and technical and scientific development, and to make a better living for Ecuadorians, and achieve sustainable development in the country
The aim of the present study was to investigate the social profile of the students of the Basic General Education of Ecuador
Summary
During the last fifteen years, Ecuador has established national and international agreements regarding education. The main objective of these agreements has been to guarantee the quality of national education with equity, intercultural, and inclusive vision in order to strengthen citizen training and unity among the Ecuadorian society. The Ecuadorian educational system is an integrated, decentralized and flexible system, which meets the needs of individual and social learning, contributes to cultural identity, and promotes unity in diversity. As well as it aims to consolidate a society with intercultural awareness, strengthen the multi-cultural and multiethnic country with a universal vision, reflexive, critical, participatory, supportive and democratic. The Ecuadorian educational system offers a higher learning education which allows the fulfillment of this vision, and based on the principles such as: quality, equity, inclusion, relevance, participation, accountability, diversity, flexibility and efficiency, the different components of the national educational system pursues the commitment and participation in the construction of knowledge of society (Castellano et al, 2017)
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