The dialogic educational model: a contribution based on the learning communities experience

Abstract

Over the last two decades a transfor-mational project has emerged in different contexts (Spain, Brazil and Chile) in schools that are mostly attended by pupils from vulnerable social and economic backgrounds. This project is entitled Learning Communities. The fundamental characteristic of this project is the involvement of the whole community in order to achieve a quality education for every pupil. When examining the abundant documents that have been published to date about this project, a new educational model comes to light. However, this model is still not systematised as such in the existing bibliography. This article will carry out that systematisation through the instrumental use of specialised theoretical categories (educational conceptualization, type of personal construction, type of society, focus of the curriculum, educational model, didactic model and concept of evaluation) and will propose a new educational model which has been entitled the dialogic educational model. In this way an attempt is being made in this article to contribute to the specific field of education, by systematising an educational alternative which efficiently resolves problems such school failure, absenteism and school conflicts.