Actitudes familiares ante la alteridad cultural. ¡Mi papá no quiere que me junte con él!

Abstract

Education takes off and displays in the family, and lands and continues at school, where it is combined with teaching, which contributes strongly. Attitudes are the base and predisposition for action; they gestate in the family and reinforced in school. Attitudes towards diversity are no an exception, start from the familiar structure and are molded in the school. This study analyzes the attitudes of parents towards cultural diversity in their children’s secondary and high school classrooms. To do this they have interviewed 14 mothers and 8 parents, using a battery of questions (18 questions) validated by experts from different educational levels (3 secondary and high schools and 3 University), whose answers have been treated qualitatively (content analysis) and quantitatively (trend analysis, and differential percentage). Since the group has been considered as a case (case study), the results give a glimpse of the attitudinal pattern showing to cultural diversity in the classroom.