Three perspectives for the analysis of economic management in primary schools

Abstract

Result of a research process that takes place within the framework of inter-institutional academic-research relations between the University of Havana and the University of Pedagogical Sciences Enrique José Varona in the field of Education Economics, addresses a primary concept of this discipline, the economic management, singling out the same to the educational management when considering the analysis of this concept from the perspective of the educational quality and the formation of the economic culture of the schoolchildren in the case of the level of primary education. Its objective is to argue three perspectives of analysis on economic management in primary schools and for this purpose analysis-synthesis, induction - deduction, abstraction - generalization were used as methods. It is based on the analysis of the definition of economic management and contextualizes the educational activity that takes place in primary schools as a reference for the argument of the three dimensions identified; the relationship between them is also relieved. In general, it is concluded that economic management is a process and is the basis for identifying its dimensions of analysis, and arguing a theoretical response to the debate regarding the conception of educational activity as an economic activity, which generates two aggregate values of its processes, educational quality and formation of economic culture in schoolchildren.