Schools That “Stay Away” From the Community. Is It a Lost Chance for Community Learning and Democratic Citizenship in Ngo Schools?

Abstract

Gert Biesta, in the book Learning Democracy in School and Society (2011) looks at the relationships between education, lifelong learning and democratic citizenship from the "wide angle, emphasizing the importance of the democratic quality of the processes and practices that make up the everyday lives of children, young people and adults for their ongoing formation as democratic citizens" (Biesta 2011, p. 1). Despite the fact that there are different models of cooperation between schools and local agents and not all are the ideal ones that promote the symmetrical participation of all partners, as Roman Dorczak (2012) describes, usually in small local communities there is the tradition of cooperation among all the agents that was described by Etienne Wenger as a "com-