Presencia de la teoría de la violencia simbólica de Pierre Bourdieu en la educación superior ecuatoriana actual

Abstract

This article elucidates symbolic violence from the theory of reproduction of Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron. An analysis is made of the violent-symbolic elements of the pedagogical action carried out in higher education environments in Ecuador. The art study shows that there are writings that reflect on the factors that make education a symbolic violence, however, there is no an analysis perspective in the area of higher education in Ecuador. The purpose of this work is to identify the presence of elements of symbolic violence in higher education in Ecuador. As a result, it was identified that the academic offers of universities match industrial demands, generating prestige values on some careers and discrediting values on others, leading to the satisfaction of an arbitrary market and the reproduction of unequal social classes. There is a poor implementation of cultural elements in university academic training. The contents of higher education it’s not deduced from the realities of the people. Finally, the privatization of the education is a structure of the educational system that limits and arbitrarizes educational access, as a selection and elimination system that restricts access and educational choices. These mentioned factors make the pedagogical action of higher education a symbolic violence.