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it as something negative in the school setting instead university teachers the causes of the apathy of young
of a possibility to generate interest and challenges in first-come.
them that encourage their teaching-learning process.
Another factor that has been perceived today is that THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
students who enter college, many of them do not
know the career they will study, are influenced by One of the main factors that shows the society and
their peers to choose a career or their parents choose that is the cause of the apathy is the personal
what their children will study in the university. demotivation which causes a disinterest to participate
college. A predominant factor in Mexico City, is that in the joint activities. Flores, González and Rodríguez
many students fail to enter the university that they (2013) point out that anxiety in classes and especially
want. in mathematics is everywhere, taking into account all
the countries of the Organization for Economic
GENERAL OBJECTIVE Growth and Development (OECD), in half of children
age 15 and over 60% of girls are concerned that they
Diagnose the factors involved in the apathy of will find their math classes very difficult and will get
industrial engineering students. low grades.

Specific objectives Pérez (S / A) points out that higher education in
Mexico faces very important challenges: The
 Understand the contextualization of apathy in inequality between supply and demand, lack of
school. resources in a large part of the population to access
private education, low educational level in the upper
 Know relevant facts about the causes and middle level, socioeconomic conditions, among many
consequences of apathy in school.
others, have determined a difficult panorama for the
 Calculate the representative sample using 95% young people of our country.
confidence.
According to Cabrera, Peral and Barajas (2012)
 Adapt the questionnaire proposed by Lopez and
Sánchez (2010) in the representative sample. indicate that the concept of apathy was more accepted
in popular culture after the First World War, being
 Analyze the results obtained from the described as one of several forms of war neurosis
questionnaires applied to the representative characterized by a feeling of emotional numbness and
sample. indifference to normal social interaction. Valentini
 Evaluate the results obtained from the analysis of (2008) points out that apathy in school settings is not
the questionnaires. a static phenomenon to be studied in a laboratory; has
a dynamic destiny: it is born, develops, leads to
disinterest, disinterest engenders boredom and it
JUSTIFICATION shows many faces: passivity, inertia, sadness and even
anger and from there begins to approach the other
In the investigation, apathy was taken as the object of pole of apathy: rebel aggression. Panimboza (2015)
study in the young people who have just entered the points out that school disinterest is a fact that comes
industrial engineering career, due to the fact that they 50 years ago. In spite of the technological advance,
have noticed a great lack of interest in learning, it has the neglect of learning is a social factor that has
also been possible to see desertion rates, which is seen increased. Poor performance is one of the factors that
reflected in low academic performance from the first is caused by the poor qualifications that adolescents
semester of admission to their study. The student is have obtained.
apathetic to any circumstance in the classroom, does
not make the least effort to increase his grades, to The analysis of apathy by studies necessarily leads to
study subjects assigned, to participate in activities. absenteeism in general, absence may be due to factors
This research aims to reach the causes that originate due to socioeconomic problems (for example, lack of
this phenomenon, and with this to make known to money for transport, clothes, shoes, etc.), so that they

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