Physical Education and Learning Communities

Abstract

Learning communities are schools which participate in a social and cultural transformation project where both school and communities contribute that the boys and girls can have, from their own situation, the maximum cultural and educational opportunities. This would make that the educational results could be equal or even higher than any other students that don't belong to any social exclusion risk group. The main element is the dialogic learning based on all the educational elements (students, teachers, families, volunteers and any other neighborhood and town entities which want to participate) having the same opportunity for the dialogue and agreement. Physical Education in these schools follows these standards creating a respectful climate between participants, promoting the cooperative work in heterogeneous groups, increasing student's responsibility and generating, apart from others, success expectations in the students learning.