Estudio de Conocimientos, Actitudes y Prácticas (CAP) de las estudiantes y los estudiantes de la Unidad Educativa “Octavio Cordero Palacios”, en Ecuador, respecto a las violencias en el entorno educativo. Un abordaje desde el modelo sistémico. Año 2021

Abstract

Violence within the educational environment represents a latent reality that is experienced daily in educational institutions in Ecuador, violating the rights and integrity of students and student victims, sometimes going unnoticed due to ignorance, disinterest or indifference. The general objective of this research is to identify the knowledge, attitudes and practices of the students of the Octavio Cordero Palacios Educational Unit, in Cuenca - Ecuador, regarding violence, based on a systemic approach from Social Work. A quantitative research approach was applied, through a census of 97 students from 14 to 18 years old, who are in the first, second and third year of high school in the morning and afternoon sections. The research design is descriptive and cross-sectional, using a questionnaire for data collection, consisting of a sociodemographic module, a second one applied to social systems and three modules oriented to obtain records on knowledge, attitudes and practices. It was identified that the students have ample knowledge about violence. Regarding attitudes, most of students express rejection of violent acts. In practice, most students show behaviors against any manifestation of violence. The confinement by Covid-19 caused a change in the training modality, from face-to-face to virtual. Students expressed that cyberbullying has emerged during the pandemic within virtual classes. Through the systemic model from the perspective of social work, students consider the family and school as a safe and reliable place, while with the neighborhood, most students do not feel such affinity.