Educative community

Educational community refers to the group of people who influence and are affected by a certain educational environment. If it is a school, it is made up of students, alumni, teachers, former teachers, directors, cleaners, administrative staff, parents, benefactors of the school, and even residents of the establishments.

In general terms, the educational community is in charge of promoting activities that lead to the improvement of the quality of education, and also to improve the psychosocial well-being of students. It seeks not only to provide instruction or improve its quality, but to reach what could be called comprehensive education, that is, to also play a role that goes beyond the economic and structural aspects of the physical plant of educational institutions, reaching levels of complexity and responsibility by including aspects such as controls on educational budgets, evaluations of educational quality and controls at the socio-educational level, convenient immersion in school community projects and learning projects, pedagogical research- educational etc The educational community can and should be characterized by being open to changes and being receptive to innovations. The educational community can also be understood as the group of people involved in a certain educational project, and that generally concerns more specifically a group of teachers and students as primary elements, and a group of parents and guardians as very directly interested elements.

Lines of work in an educational community

Basically, two general guidelines stand out:

• In the event that the group is attached to a particular educational establishment, the work in the fundamental part is particularly aimed at such establishment (installations, services, teaching materials), and/or its pupils, and/or its teachers, and/or the mechanisms for cooperation and exchange among the groups.

• In the event that the group is more attached to an educational level or to education in general, and/or to a guild, and/or to a social sector, and/or to a political ideology or party, the actions are aimed at influencing government policies in the field of education, whether by advising more or less directly to public institutions and powers, whether by organizing or participating in popular protests.

External references

• Argentine School Cooperators, official site.
• Wikcionario has definitions and other information about educational community.