Una lectura a los elementos de una política de familia desde el ámbito educativo en el Ecuador.

Abstract

This research is a descriptive documentary study of social policies concerning families in the Ecuadorian educational field. The main objective of this paper is to know the general state of the question about family public policy in the educational field in Ecuador, which leads to the debate on a possible integral family policy. In turn, family elements were rescued in the educational policies, the conceptions of family present in the design of public policies in education, in front of the elements described and the family problems to which they try to respond from the same. Among the most important results of this study we can point out the following: the main elements about family in educational policy are related to the basic family functions, focused on subjects as individuals and not as part of family systems. From the process of designing and formulating social policies in the educational field, a traditional conception of the family is still evident, leaving aside the systemic approach. Problems such as domestic violence, abuse, substance use, adolescent pregnancy, among others, are addressed in isolation to families in the Ecuadorian educational field.