Influencia de los ambientes ecológicos en el rendimiento escolar de estudiantes. Estudio de caso: Institución Educativa Donald Rodrigo Tafur, Grado Octavo

Abstract

The objective of this thesis is to identify how ecological environment influence academic and disciplinary performance of eighth-grade students of the IETI Donald Rodrigo Tafur school. The ecological theory of human development of Urie Bronfenbrenner was used to achieve the purpose; this theory proposes that human actions are determined by series of interrelations of man in an ecological scope, which is a relation of individual-context. It focuses on the human behavior, having an effect directly on society. Bronfenbrenner set up a logical and organized method to concentrate ecological environments within perfectly defined systems denominated: Micro-system, mesosystem, exo-system and macro-system. The approach for this thesis was qualitative in an exploratory-observatory and applicative perspective, then it was a description and analysis of obtained results. The outcomes of an accurate methodological process demonstrated the eighth-grade students of the IETI Donald Rodrigo Tafur School mobilize in a hostile ecological environment such as violent and dangerous neighborhood, government abandonment and intrafamiliar conflicts, affecting negatively the academic and disciplinary performance.