2013
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Pablo Rupin, « Parental Participation in Preschool Education: Learning and Community Practices in Chile », La revue internationale de l’éducation familiale, ID : 10670/1.bef52c...
Within the framework of “situated learning” we offer an analysis of parental participation in early childhood education as a learning place for adults engaged in early-childhood educational and care structures. A qualitative approach, relying mainly on group interviews, is used to present non-conventional Chilean experiences. These consist of centres that call upon parents to participate actively, as a structural component of their operation, an experience adapted at the same time to the local community tissue. Beyond the observation of diverse participatory practices, their possible spin-offs and limits, the presence of a community-based action model allows for an informal learning process, especially of including the political context.