Networking: Development of inclusive innovative projects in the face of disengage and school dropout

Abstract

This article presents the results of networking developed by inter-institutional and inter-service teams in two provinces of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia in the face of the same problem: school disengagement and dropout, understood as a multidimensional process that takes place and develops in the educational and social contexts to which the students belong. The general objective of this study focuses, therefore, on the construction of local networks that address the processes of school disengagement, creating a network of work and support between educational centers and social organizations and researchers from the same locality or area as a space of collaboration and exchange of knowledge, experience and inclusive practices on the subject. From a participatory and emancipatory methodological approach, different inclusive and innovative educational projects that address this problem from the perspective of Inclusive Education are developed within each team. The results obtained point out, on the one hand, the benefit and impact that the approach of a phenomenon as complex as the disengagement and dropping out of school from the network work of institutions and organizations under a same view and different institutional positions. On the other hand, the development of the study shows the diversity and richness of educational responses (inclusive educational projects) developed according to the needs and unique contexts.