Challenges of the State in the improvement of educational competencies of families in the coastal-marine strip of El Salvador.
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https://doi.org/10.5377/ri.v1i10.18457Keywords:
Costal zone, Educational competencies, Illiteracy, SchoolingAbstract
El Salvador is a Central American country with a 320 km coastline along the Pacific Ocean, divided into two regions: the low and the high coast. These coastal areas account for more than 25% of the country's total population, mostly women and children under 18 years. This research was aimed at evaluating the educational competencies of knowledge, skills, and attitudes of the families residing in these coastal areas, specifically in areas related to literacy, formal education, and the use of technology; in this way, existing educational gaps were identified; for this purpose, a survey was conducted with 1810 families, interviewing one member of each family. The survey results reveal that 22.6% of people under study have no formal education, and the average number of years of schooling is 2.72, showing a large disparity as compared to the national average of 7.1 years in 2019, and 19.3% of them do not know how to read or write. In addition, only 31.5% of these subjects know how to use a computer. These results, added to the low technical and educational level of the people working in the management of coastal marine resources, generate relatively low salaries. To improve this situation, it is proposed to work with a territorial and capacity development approach to strengthen the educational skills and competencies of the population in the coastal areas of El Salvador.
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