SOCIAL INEQUALITY AS A BARRIER TO LEARNING AMONG COLOMBIAN BASIC EDUCATION STUDENTS

Abstract

Education is seen as the fundamental axis to transform society and eliminate the social barriers that prevent overcoming the expectations of children and their families, but the action of the school is a step that cannot go unnoticed when landing the real situation of each student. Since the beginning of the century, the social reality has been altered and in decline, which is why there is inequality in the learning rhythms of individuals in public schools. From there, the general objective emerges: to reflect on social inequality as a barrier in the learning of basic education students in Colombia; From this point of view it is necessary to point out that the present  essay emerges from a documentary analysis which allows an approach to the essence of the object of study; reason that leads to results on the role of social inequality that acts as a barrier in the learning of students in vulnerable contexts which leads to a deep understanding of the subjective experiences of school actors in relation to the social gap; which undoubtedly affects the reality that is lived in the school institutions that demand new ways of teaching to overcome the barriers that arise in academic training.