Educación física y comunidades de aprendizaje*

Learning communities are schools which participate in a social and cultural transformation project where both the school and communities contribute to the boys and girls to have, from their own situation, the maximum cultural and educational opportunities. This could make the educational results to be equal or even higher than any other student 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.