El Declive de los Programas de Economía en Bogotá: una Mirada Desde la Deserción y las Políticas Educativas (2000-2015)

Abstract

This doctoral thesis aims to understand the causes associated with the high dropout rate in economics programs in Bogotá, D.C., during the last fifteen years, in private universities. To this end, four conceptual categories are defined that will allow the analysis of dropout, namely: educational policies, dropout, economics programs and teaching of the mentioned discipline. This study is methodologically based on a qualitative paradigm, under a critical hermeneutic approach; it uses instruments such as semi-structured interviews and surveys applied to the different actors involved (economic thinkers, teaching directors and students). It seeks to generate public policy recommendations, through which a greater positioning of the discipline is guaranteed, considering that this is transversal to other areas of knowledge. Likewise, it aims to vindicate the profile of the economist as a development planner, who tries to solve society's problems, based on theoretical foundations from the different positions or currents of economic thought, and taking into account the new realities of the world.