The school as a common good. the school-family relationship reviewed in a sustainable model of sharing

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to use the fertility of the concept of common good to analyze one of the issues more critical for the management of educational experience: the difficult relationship between school and family. In the first part of the essay, starting from the definition of “common good” there is a possibility to use this concept to read the scholastic experience. In the second part, recognizing the possibility of understanding the school as a common good, we use the innovative approach that the term brings to identify new ways of managing school experience and in particular new definitions of relationships with families overcoming the oscillation between delegation and intrusion, but opening spaces of participation and real sharing.