Political culture from higher education

Abstract

This article investigates the knowledge that university teachers have on political culture as essential elements such as democracy, participation and the promotion of this culture in the private universities. It consists of a comparative analysis of Sartori’s political Theory, Peschard’s approach of democratic political culture and
Theory Almond and Verba to analyze the evolution of this politic to civic culture. A questionnaire was administered, with open questions to 43 teachers, 8 individual depth interviews and a focus group with teachers of 18 careers, belonging to 9 private universities in El Salvador. Similitude of knowledge found of checked classic conceptualizations, marked confusion between political culture and political ideology, considerable interest in the promotion for those who know much about; the involvement of teachers is achieved see three types of scenarios: 1 - which have good participation fee 2 - Other teachers consider participating sparsely 3 - other with little to no participation. The level of promotion and engagement with students is limited by the institutional political views, 3 types of conceptions perceive: 1 where the university knows and powers the political culture, 2 - the university is on the sidelines, but that their teachers are free to chair and do so for private initiative and 3 - perceptions of universities that separate the academic commitment of the political agenda of the country