Conocimiento de la constitución colombiana y de la actitud hacia la participación política en estudiantes de ingenieria

This research seeks to establish the level of knowledge that engineering students who are about to graduate have regarding the Colombian Constitution and their attitude towards political participation. The subject is proposed considering the expected relationship between university and social responsibility which highlights the importance of citizenship education. In the theoretical framework, concepts such as constitution, rights, duties, mechanisms for citizen participation, individual autonomy, subject training, knowledge and attitude are reviewed. A descriptive quantitative research methodology was followed; for that, two kinds of instruments were used during the process: a) a Constitution knowledge questionnaire and b) a Likert-type scale item questionnaire for attitude. These instruments were applied to 83 students who were enrolled in the last semesters of electronic, computing, civil, and industrial engineering. The results for all programs reflect a low level of knowledge about the Colombian Constitution regarding fundamental principles, rights, duties and participation mechanisms. Regarding the attitude towards political participation an average positive (45.8) with a deviation from this average of 3.9 was obtained

• Autores: Romero Espinosa, Olga; Mejía Vélez, Susana
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2013
• Institución: Corporación Universidad de la Costa
• Repositorio: REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/1799
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/11323/1799; https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
• Palabra clave: Constitución; Mecanismos de participación ciudadana; Derechos y deberes; Conocimiento; Actitud; Constitution; Mechanisms for citizen participation; Rights and duties; Knowledge; Attitude
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2