Hegemony and emancipation, representational elements of the social object school

Abstract

The school, as a space for relationships or as an educational establishment for the transmission of knowledge, maintains a direct relationship with families. This study problematizes the school / family relationship in upper secondary school grades in the context of the city of Pasto - Colombia. The objective is to explore the social representations that parents of high school students have about the school. It has information of 143 people linked to public educational institutions. With the use of a questionnaire of open questions, the dimension of information and the attitude dimension of the representational content were investigated. The results show three categories: teacher performance, teaching and student performance as part of the representational content, which mediate the image of the school. These results allow us to infer that there are elements tending to the conformation of hegemonic social representations and emancipated social representations.