A comunicação no Programa Família Escola de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

In order to establish a relationship policy with the Rede Municipal de Educação students’ relatives, the Belo Horizonte city hall released, in February 2005, the project Família-Escola. This led to an approach between the municipal education managers and the students’ relatives. In this way, some actions and tools were implemented in order to strengthen the rapprochement between the Secretaria Municipal de Educação and the families. They are: local meetings, forums where managers and families took place and also other ways of communication. After almost a decade, the Familia-Escola is consolidated as a permanent program belonging to the city’s educational policy which main objective is to dialogue over educational demands with the families. This research aims to describe and analyse the influence of the actions and ways of communication proposed in the school life and in the relations between families and municipal schools. The focus of this research is the northern region of Belo Horizonte city. The analysis was based on interviews with the managers and technicians of the program and also on sending questionnaires to the students families and northern region municipal schools managers. The observation and analysis of the point of view of different characters allowed, as a result of this study, the indication of actions to enhance the ways of communication in order to contribute to the effective approach between school and family.