Educação: estreitando os laços entre a escola, a família e a comunidade

Abstract

This study is a reflection on the importance and the need of closer ties between the school, the family, and the community in educating and training citizens and subjects. This is a qualitative research based on a theoretical approach with the goal of providing some thoughts on the importance of bringing together the school, the family, and the community, through a commitment which involves not only educating and training, but also participation, shared-responsibility, and cooperation in the social role of children, youngsters, and adults. More specifically, this study also has the aim, to reflect on the difficulties of approaching these segments, to think about the possibilities of overcoming these difficulties, and to learn from experiences that have worked and innovations that can contribute to a democratic and liberating education. The first chapter is a brief visit to the concepts of family, school, community and citizen, as well as providing initial remarks about the importance of these segments in educating human beings. The second chapter reinforces the importance of these institutions as enshrined in Brazilian law. The third chapter brings the democratic partnership of this triad in raising a citizen for a fairer, more sympathetic, brotherly and participatory society, ensuring a shared commitment to education and determining a mutual responsibility among children, youngster, and adults. The fourth chapter presents some democratic work experiences that have worked and are continuing to be built up while society changes, the family changes and the forms and instruments of learning and teaching also change. If the school has a social function to form historical subjects, it needs to be a space that offers favorable conditions to enable the construction and socialization of the knowledge that is produced, and this does not happen only at school but in every other environment one lives in; because knowledge also takes place and is developed through the relationships that exist across different social spaces. This study showed that bringing together the school, the family and the community is a difficult experience which presents a lot of inequalities and it hasn’t been reached by many schools yet. Besides, the positive experiences presented in this study are few, it has taken a long time and they are still being collectively built. There is no straight forward way. The only certainty which one can be sure of is about the need to innovate and break rules, setting oneself free from all the things which still bind education to an inoperative and a more and more impractical system