São Miguel de Machede Community School: Building Citizenship

Abstract

The São Miguel de Machede Community School was founded in 1998 in a small rural village in the municipality of Évora, Portugal. Since that founding moment, the project's aim has been to create a community educational context that would promote the opportunity to build better access locally between the citizens living there and their rights and duties as citizens. Under these circumstances, the São Miguel de Machede Community School was structured around people's daily lives, taking access to Health, Education, Economy, Culture, Information, Solidarity, Work and Leisure as the cornerstones of a socio-educational approach that determined a model of Community Education that has been developed and implemented.