Reconstruction of social tissue in schools: a proposal from the social work

Abstract

The current social decomposition is characterized by individualism, indifference and lack of solidarity, which causes deterioration of the social tissue. Violence is one of the forms of dominant social relationship that has been normalized in our societies and has permeated the schools. In this sense, we want to characterize social processes that are generated in schools, where it reproduces and recreates violence, exclusion, rejection, distrust. It seems essential to bear in mind that fragmentation and breakdown of the social tissue is not individual but a structural problem, but this does not mean that you cannot change this with actions in the reverse direction, i.e. from the micro-spaces, in everyday relationships and, in this sense, to claim the school as a possibility to change the dominant social relations. For this purpose an intervention model designed from Social Work, called “Communities School ACI” is presented, whose overall objective is to build harmonious coexistence in school communities and their environments through trigger processes of acceptance, trust and inclusion among young students and the various actors, strengthening cohesion between them. The application of this model in various contexts has allowed us to prove its effectiveness achieving relational frames disrupt in school communities; changes that could transcend other social spaces; thereby assuming that the school and educational processes that gestate there, play a major role in the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of the social tissue that makes us be together