Family characteristics of graduate students in the Faculty of Education.
Keywords:
Family structure, case studies, public colleges, educational research, MexicoAbstract
The purpose of this research was to have information about the main characteristics of the families of the students of post-graduate courses in the Faculty of Education at the Autonomous University of Yucatan. The total number of students is of 113 and the sample was of 68 subjects. To obtain the information an objective questionnaire about personal and family information was used. The results show that middle class families , have a nuclear structure, with changes in the traditional roles of the parents and functioning in “normal” general terms.
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