Abstract

BORN, Diego. Aspectos metodológicos de los indicadores sociales para pensar la educación. Propuesta educativa (Online) [online]. 2018, n.49, pp.18-31. ISSN 1995-7785.

The relationship between the social and education presents multiple edges and meanings. In this article, we focus is on an instrumental aspect of that relationship: the basic methodological aspects related to the use of information about living conditions to analyze and guide public education policy. In the first place, the emphasis is placed on three methodological aspects: the different units that classify the social indicators linked to the sociocultural origin, the different dimensions or themes that these take into account and the classification or segmentation criteria used. We based on the premise that only by clarifying these aspects can a social indicator be properly used.This applies to the researcher or analyst who generates his own information or uses secondary sources, as well as to the manager who uses the information to guide policy actions. Secondly, we exemplify the diversity of existingoptions based on different methodological decisions by analyzing an a priori simple relationship: the level of household income and the attendance of adolescents at school. Finally, we briefly describethe main sources of information available in Argentina for the construction of social indicators in relation to education.

Keywords : Methodology; Social indicators; Educational inequality; Socioeconomic level; Social Context of Education Index.

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