Community Participation

Do you think you participate in your

community?

What is community

participation?

Are you involved in different initiatives to

improve your community?

This module wants to provoke you to think about your community involvement and participation, and especially about your participation as a family at your children’

school.

There are five different levels of family participation at schoolsAs defined by the study “INCLUDE-ED Strategies for inclusion and social cohesion in Europe from education” (p.31):

Informative: families are informed but do not take part in

decisions of schools

Consultative: families participate on decision making but only

through statutory bodies and their impact is limited

Decisive: families and community members are representatives on

decision-making bodies, and consequently they participate in

decision-making processes.

Evaluative: families and community members participate

in learning processes of pupils through the evaluation of pupils’

progress.

Educative: families and community members participate

in learning processes of pupils during and after the school hours

and they participate in educational programmes which

respond to their needs

During this module we will discuss: models of citizenship, children and youngsters’ participation, educating

cities, the community and their resources, parents organisations.

Which do you think is your type of participation?

Would you like to change it?

Democracy is directly related to

participation. It is time to start thinking

about it!

Democracy is… POSSIBLE

Module structure: Community

participationBlock 1

Citizenship

• Activity 1: Models of citizenship and levels of participation

Block 2 People

• Activity 1: Interculturality (DID YOU KNOW THAT…?)

• Activity 2: Our ideal neighborhood/town/city

• Activity 3: A cute and enriching relationship: a grandpa or a grandma and a child

• Activity 4: Participation in rural schools (Rural Schools)

Block 3 Environment

• Activity 1: Networking• Activity 2: The

community and their resources

• Activity 3: Educating cities

• Activity 3: Local Community for School Infrastructure (Rural Schools)

• A5-G/RS: Brand New Rural school (Rural Schools)

• A6-G/RS: Rural Schools as Multifunctional Community Centres (Rural Schools)

Block 4 Parents’ Organisations

• Activity 1: Should I be involved in a Parents’ Organisation?

• Activity 2: Models of parents organisations

• Activity 3: Organization• Activity 4: Leadership

Module structure: Community

participation

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Citizenship

People Environment

Parents’ Organisations

We hope you like it!