CRITICAL COMMUNICATION PEDAGOGY AT EDUCATIONAL CENTERS

• Main Authors: Roseli de Mello, Rosa Larena
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2009-11-01
• Series: Education in the Knowledge Society
• Subjects: transformación; ciencia-sueños-utopía; solidaridad; diálogo igualitario; radicalización democrática; Comunidades de Aprendizaje
• Online Access: http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/revistatesi/article/view/3966

Educational researches and proposals should be founded on successful theories<br />and projects recognized by the international scientific community. Based on this<br />premise, we describe Learning Communities as an educational proposal that involves<br />the implementation of theoretical perspectives with a dialogic and critical approach<br />aimed at quality learning for everyone and at overcoming situations of inequality and<br />exclusion.<br />To this end, this article is structured into two distinct parts. The first discusses several<br />theoretical proposals (while also contemplating interdisciplinarity) from the perspective<br />of critical communication. The second part describes the educational experience of the<br />Escuela de Personas Adultas of La Verneda de Sant Martí, the first Learning Community,<br />as well as the processes to bring about the transformation of educational centers in<br />Learning Communities, a proposal that is being disseminated by different countries<br />based on the standpoint of critical communication pedagogy.