A escola e a comunidade

: uma experiência profissional : relatório de atividade profissional

Abstract

School-community relationships, particularly parental involvement in the educational process, have been involved in paradoxical antagonisms. The recognition of the importance of parents` participation in school, by, either legal means or discourse from the most varied fronts, hasn’t been met by sustained practices of democratization of the schools, consecrators of a community involvement in the organization and operationalization of their educational projects. Through an introspective journey of my professional path as a teacher and manager, both in private and public systems, I intend to clarify some of the barriers to parental involvement in school and find clues on how to develop parent’s participation. The dynamics of community construction, performed in Agrupamento de Escolas de Briteiros had the effects of transforming the school in an aggregative nucleus of the surrounding environment and help to evidence the enormous potential deriving from an effective participation of the parents and the community in school life.

Date of Award	2012
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Joaquim Machado (Supervisor)