ECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY IN THE UNIVERSITY: SKETCH AND QUALITATIVE APPROACH FROM THE SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF MAINTENANCE GRANTEES

Abstract

This research is approaching the Social Representations (RS) of scholarship students on the problem of educational and economic inequality in the university context from a constructionist approach, that is, from the meanings given according to the experience and role they play, their beliefs and culture manifested in their particular and own forms of expression. To this end, a review is made of the lines and fields of study carried out in response to this social problem considered one of the most serious and persistent in Mexico, as well as the various mitigation proposals to the same from the action of public policies Subsequently, the pertinence and use of the aforementioned methodological theoretical approach in the educational field, the Higher level school space and in an institute of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo (AUSH) is explained. With the above, finally the findings obtained through a mixed study are reported with a survey of 123 undergraduate students, beneficiaries of the maintenance grant and who are part of a new way of understanding the factors that are directly related to the unequal types objects of this study.