Community-school-family relationship: a phenomenological aproximation

Abstract

Community-school-family relationship is fundamental in achieving school organization goals, and from this perspective the purpose of this paper was to understand that relationship at "Leonardo Ruiz Pineda" State Educational Unit in Barquisimeto, Lara State, from involved actors's view, using the phenomenological method. The fifty qualified inforrners intentional sample were selected from teachers, administrative and worker personal, students, parents and neighbors ofthe school. It was a three stages research: a) Previous or assumption explanation, b) Descriptive and c) Structural. The constructed community-school-family relationship, showed in the community­school-family relationship process actors and authors: lack of cornmunication, leaders absence, lax attitude, apathy and unselfishness; nevertheless the individuals were conscious of the problems existing in the cornmunity and the school, like that their problems solution direct responsibility.