Las finalidades de la educación primaria según los estudiantes del último año de la licenciatura en educación primaria en México

Abstract

The article presents a part of the report of a research about education conceptions, seen from the pedagogy, of students about to graduate on basic education in public schools. It is focused on the purposes given to basic education, which is its natural level of insertion. The methodological proposal, the theoretical frame, and the results lie within the article, besides the bibliography. The major dispersion found out in the “what for” of basic education is one of the main results. This dispersion has serious consequences in the formation of individuals and in the school management.