The community educational centers an option for the optimal use of the educational infrastructure

Abstract

It is essential, for an adequate contextualization of the concept of community educational center, to start from the fact that this idea falls within the broad spectrum that constitutes Permanent Education, of which, according to Hummel (1978, p. 35), It can be affirmed that it is accepted everywhere as a basic principle, from which all reflection on general questions in the field of education starts, and from which all important educational reforms are explicitly inspired. For this author, it is a requirement of the time to offer adults a wide range of educational possibilities and multiple options for continuing education courses, updating those who are backward, allowing them to adapt to new employment situations or to return again to abandoned studies. , participate in cultural activities or adequately fill free time periods. On the other hand, Martín-Moreno (1989, p. 49), considers that Permanent Education is directed, fundamentally, to offer possibilities for the necessary updating of the knowledge that adults acquired in their schooling; Generally convenient updating, due to the inevitable forgetting in the course of time of a large part of what has been learned and due to the need to catch up on technical and scientific development. From this perspective, the educational center must be transformed to serve the community. It should not be a closed place, separated from reality and reserved for a part of the population, rather, it should allow every man or woman the opportunity to freely carry out activities of a different nature and to use its facilities for these purposes.