Family and the School: A relationship based on mitigation and integration

Abstract

The family as a social entity, its roots and history, gives us a map of how they exist and relate to the education of their sons and daughters through the social structure of the school. We look at the history of the pre and postindustrial family in Puerto Rico to learn about its evolution and the influences and values present in current education. Both the social and cultural capital of the parents, continue to be decisive for the future success of the education of their sons and daughters, which requires that we reconfigure the vital space of the school as one that transcends the home and the school. We provide a theoretical review of the Family and School relationship to consider a new association based on co-responsibility. In light of the pandemic, the priorities call for educators and public policy managers to approach this relationship with a view to mitigating what was lost, in terms of time and learning of students, while charting a new path towards integrating the family in a new Family-School binomial.