Risk in sociocultural situations: The case of a secondary level institution

Abstract

The following paper analyzes the sociocultural conditions faced by the students in a “Centro de Estudios Tecnologicos Industriales y de Servicio” in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Working from a mixed focus method with the goal of obtaining quantitative and qualitative data which allows analyzing the limitations and the precariousness, as well as the actives from the student's homes, mobilize in search of better social and life conditions (Gonzalez, 2012). The analysis of the variables: the composition of the family core, work, living and education conditions of the parents, showed several phenomena amongst which the most outstanding were: bad payed jobs, families organized in a way that makes it hard to satisfy basic needs; precarious neighborhoods and homes owned by parents with only the basic level of education, which in turn creates an educative context characterized by precarious traits that the alumni and professors must face daily. From an educational policy that minimizes or negates their implications in the learning process, putting at risk a good income, the permanency and graduating with quality and equality.