Educational Perspective for the Social Prevention of Feminicide.

Abstract

This research was conceived to examine gender violence and its worst consequence, femicide, which is nothing more than the murder of women. The purpose of this research is to analyze the configurative elements of femicide present in the Ecuadorian legal framework as a contribution to the development of pedagogical strategies for the social prevention of femicide. For this purpose, a methodological design was used, framing this problem in the positivist paradigm, with a quantitative approach from a field research, which presents a descriptive level. The population under study consisted of 120 students of the first semesters of the school of education of the faculty of education of the Metropolitan University UMET. The population was of finite type. The data collection technique was the survey and the dichotomous questionnaire was used as an instrument. The analysis technique was the percentage statistic. It was found that 58% of those consulted do not know what feminicide is, in addition to the fact that 69% of those consulted indicated that they are witnesses of family violence. Among the conclusions: Feminicide is a legal concept coined in a more specific way than homicide, being the most extreme form of violence against women. It is an action that does not respond to a specific situation or actors, since it takes place both in times of peace and in times of armed conflict, and the women victims do not have a unique age range profile.