Exercises in Democracy in relationships between educational professionals and family members

Abstract

The relationship between educators/teachers and family members is a crucial issue in ecec services and schools, as it promotes children's well-being, motivation to learn and academic success, prevents social inequalities, reinforces parental empowerment and strengthens social networks. However, such relationships are often prone to conflict, and they put into question the very meaning of the educational relationship as a device that produces processes of subjection and subjectification. The contribution discusses some of the conditions for such a relationship to become an exercise in democracy and participation today, even in times of neoliberalism.