The educational challenge of the twenty-first century: relevance of the cooperation between family and school

In the past times, we have assisted to a transformation of social, political, economic and cultural order that let us feel their influence in the educational institutions. From being a limited place exclusively to the transmission of content, the school has become now a day in a place that must be part of our life's. Before such a change of perspective, it is wonderful that such the family as the school have to redefine their functions. In coherence with the above, it makes it necessary to establish a dialog between the diverse social agents (school-family-society) in order to achieve a common goal: the integral development of the student. The main purpose of this investigation is to analyze the collaboration and implication of the families in the schools. Thus, we have supported in an interpretative paradigm of quantitative and qualitative cut, counting with a constituted sample by 268 families and 18 teachers belonging to two educational centers from the province of Malaga. One of the conclusions which are derived from our study is that the communication and cooperation between two different agents that they establish the educational community is overriding to guarantee a quality education.