Research Article

The Use of New Technologies in Basic Education: An Approach to Profile of Indigenous Ecuadorians

Volume: 3 Number: 1 July 1, 2017
  • Efstathios Stefos *
  • José Manuel Castellano
  • Andrés Bonilla Marchán
  • Julia Raina
  • Sevy Biloon
EN

The Use of New Technologies in Basic Education: An Approach to Profile of Indigenous Ecuadorians

Abstract

This article aims to define the profile of Ecuadorian indigenous students who study at different levels of basic education in Ecuador in the context of the application and use of emerging technologies in the last five years. This approach focuses on a comparative analysis between indigenous and non-indigenous students, based on the national data from the National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment of Ecuador (ENEMDU) 2006, 2011 and 2015, along with the contribution of other statistical sources, such as the 2001 and 2010 Census of the National Statistics Institute of Ecuador (INEC). The results show a significant difference in the use of ICTs between indigenous students and non-indigenous students, the majority of whom are mixed mestizo with minorities of montubios, blacks, whites, mulattos, afro-Ecuadorians and others. The interest in acquiring knowledge about one of the most precarious social sectors of Ecuadorian society, the indigenous population, is justified by the absence of studies about this subject, by the need to know the possible limitations or barriers, geographic, cultural and economic, and in the characterization of its profile, which will allow in future studies to deepen the process of appropriation of information and communication technologies in the applications, management and impact of ICTs and in the educational process of Ecuadorian indigenous students.

Keywords

References

  1. Almeida, K. (2014). Inversión en educación básica y objetivos del milenio. Unpublished BSc dissertation in the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE). Retrieved from: http://repositorio.puce.edu.ec/bitstream/handle/22000/6841/7.36.001418.pdf?sequence=4
  2. Athanasiadis, I. (1995). Correspondence Analysis and Hierarchical Classification (pp. 51-56). Athens: New Technologies Editions.
  3. Becerra Cortés, Y. E. (2012). Estudiantes indígenas y los usos y apropiación de las tecnologías de información y comunicación. Paakat. Revista de Tecnología y Sociedad. Año 2. No. 3. septiembre-diciembre. Retrieved from:
  4. http://www.udgvirtual.udg.mx/paakat/index.php/paakat/article/view/180/251
  5. Botello, H. A. (2015). Determinantes del acceso al internet: Evidencia de los hogares del Ecuador. Entramado, 11(2), 12-19. Retrieved from: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/5466451.pdf
  6. Castellano, J. M., Stefos, S. & Williams Goodrich, L. G. (2017). The Educational and Social Profile of the Indigenous People of Ecuador: A Multidimensional Analysis. Review of European Studies, 9(1), 137-147. doi:10.5539/res.v9n1p137
  7. CEPAL (2013). La integración de las tecnologías digitales en las escuelas de América Latina y el Caribe: una mirada multidimensional. Retrieved from:
  8. http://repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/handle/11362/21681/1/S2013023_es.pdf

Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Studies on Education

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Efstathios Stefos * This is me

José Manuel Castellano This is me

Andrés Bonilla Marchán This is me

Julia Raina This is me

Sevy Biloon This is me

Publication Date

July 1, 2017

Submission Date

July 1, 2017

Acceptance Date

-

Published in Issue

Year 2017 Volume: 3 Number: 1

APA
Stefos, E., Castellano, J. M., Marchán, A. B., Raina, J., & Biloon, S. (2017). The Use of New Technologies in Basic Education: An Approach to Profile of Indigenous Ecuadorians. International Journal of Educational Methodology, 3(1), 31-40. https://doi.org/10.12973/ijem.3.1.31