Discriminación a los niños con síndrome de down en el proceso de socialización. Un estudio de caso en quinto y sexto año de educación general básica en una institución educativa de la ciudad de Quito

Abstract

The main objective of the research is to identify the factors that lead to discrimination in children and young people with Down syndrome in the Fifth and Sixth levels of Basic General Education during the socialization process. This term has become a social phenomenon that attacks various people for their particular characteristics such as economy, disability, illness, etc., being this group of different people, what society does is evade their rights by depriving them of a place in it. The observed events were recurrent, in which parents, peers and teachers were involved. A qualitative methodology is used, with a descriptive analytical approach that will allow the decomposition of the theme, the problem, the analysis of the data and characteristics of the participating subjects within the investigation. In this way, focused on participant observation using techniques and instruments. Among the results, they revealed that discrimination against students with Down Syndrome is common and is caused by their peers, teachers and parents, the same ones that exclude them in the activities that are carried out inside and outside the classroom. At the same time, it was identified that these children were treated the same as the rest and by not carrying out the same activities, the teachers let them leave the classroom while their other classmates closed the doors, leaving the child outside, evidencing the prostration of the teachers of the center. practice.