The family as an enemy: images that students of elementary school teacher training of a Public University from Madrid have about the family-school relationship in a multicultural context

The purpose of this article is to identify the images that the future teachers of elementary school construct about the family-school relationship besides the roles and functions that assign to the family in the educational aspect, with the emphasis placed on the families migrated from abroad. The ethnographic approach is used for these purposes. Some interviews to students in the initial teaching training were carried out for the collection of data, in addition to observation of some classes of the respective program. As a result, we have that the relationship they think they will have with the families is created from a school perspective, that is, those who determine the type, the form, the instances and the moments of the relationship are the teachers and the heads of the school centers and that the families, especially those the migrated from abroad, are disruptive agents in the cultural dynamics of the school. Finally, it may be stated that it is the initial training itself the one that strengthens these images.