Opening up Educational Centers to their Surroundings: Secondary Educational Establishment

Abstract

Current society poses new challenges to educational organizations, their demands reflect the need to train the students for the workplace, raising the importance of participation, teamwork and working together. So schools, especially those that offer secondary teaching, raises the need to establish collaborative relationships with the environment. Due to this fact, our study aims to present objective partnerships that secondary schools in Andalusia have with the environment. To do this, we used a quantitative methodology, that by using the questionnaire helped to contextualize the research problem. The results show that the most important relationships are established with other schools in the city and local institutions, and within less prominent, are established relationships with unions and social partners.