Social Responsibility in Higher Education: A review of the alignment between the official educational discourse and the explicit curriculum of Oaxaca’s higher education institution

Abstract

This article analyzes the curricular alignment, after the concept of Social Responsibility, between the official educational discourse of the corresponding authority and the explicit curriculum of 81 Higher Education Institutions in the state of Oaxaca. In order to achieve this objective, a mixed approach was used, based on the methodological principles of discourse and content analysis. It was possible to identify the frequency -with which the concept appears- and that the sense denoted is generally more oriented to individual and social responsibility, but still far from university social concern as an appropriate educational category.