Las concepciones de los padres sobre el desarrolloteorías personales o teorías culturales

Abstract

This paper proposed a theoretical model aiming to explain the sources of parents� conceptions on education and the way these are represented in their minds. We assume that culture offers a wide background of conceptions which are transmitted through interactions established in close social context. The role of culture is regulated by information processing mechanisms which characterizes human processing. This is shown when, on the basis of a set of theories with deep cultural roots, the coherent mixture of theories which parents assume were analysed. The objetives to follow were: a) to devise a questionnaire to study these theories, b) to analyse the role of close social contexts in the selection of theories which parents assume, and underlie parents� academic and professional background together with the area in which they live as determinant variables of the type of theory they choose.