TY - JOUR AU - Graciela Josefina Castro Castillo AU - Marta Cecilia Ibarra Freire AU - Jefferson Estuardo Mendoza Carrera AU - Diana Jesus Burgos Mendieta PY - 2022/06/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Reading Habit in Integral Development from a vision of sustainability in students of Higher Basic Education JF - Universidad Ciencia y Tecnología JA - uct VL - 26 IS - 113 SE - EDUCATION DO - 10.47460/uct.v26i113.571 UR - https://uctunexpo.autanabooks.com/index.php/uct/article/view/571 AB - This study aims to describe the incidence of reading habits in Integral Development from a vision of sustainability in students of Higher Basic Education, through the identification of attitudes, habits, and strategies at senso-perceptive, representative, and reasoning levels in reading and writing that contributeto enhancing critical-reflective and creative thinking. The research typology was descriptive-explanatory with a mixed approach, cross-sectional, non-experimental design, supported by analytical-synthetic and inductive-deductive methods. The Reading Motivation Scale (EML) was applied. The sample was made up of 79 schoolchildren from 8th to 9th of EGB from a rural school in the Marcelino Maridueña canton of the province of Guayas, Ecuador. It underwent a reliability analysis with Cronbach's Alpha. The results show that more than 50% say they do not read books, demonstrating the need to encourage the reading process.Keywords: Reading habit, Integral development, Reading. ER -