Centres that respond to today's educational challenges involving school community: Two case studies

Abstract

Purpose: Explore current forms of involvement between schools and their school communities that prove to be satisfactory. Design/methodology/approach: Are carried out two case studies in two innovative schools, following the model of qualitative research, performing participant observation, interviews, and discussions with the individuals involved. Findings and originality/value: Discusses four practices to approach school and community: the Tutorial Action, the Opening of the Centre to the community, the implementation of interactive groups and the creation of a Commission of families. Research limitations/implications: The results are not representative of what happens in the common schools. Practical implications: Each centre should explore their own possibilities and limits to encourage the school-community relationship betting on the maximum of collaborative organizational forms among the different agents, to provide joint responses to today's educational challenges. Social implications: Social implications: The entire educational community should be well received in centers to contribute to school improvement of students and there is a real community involvement. Originality/value: When a strong synergy is been generating between all components of the educational community all members can provide answers to the current challenges of the school environment, in a horizontal plane. Intangible Capital, 2013.