Educational model for community participation through the critical thought in the construction of the communes

Abstract

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela through its Constitution has promoted community participation in public affairs and a proof of this is the creation of Community Councils and the impetus to the formation of social communes. There are many forms of participation; however, according to El Troudi et al (2005) the main form of participation
has to do with decision-making. Although community participation is a right and a duty established in the Constitution, it has been hampered by many factors (Villarroel and East, 2010). In this sense, it is aimed at conducting a study with the purpose of creating an educational model for community participation through critical thinking in the construction of the communes in Santa Ana de Coro, Falcon State. This research is based on the  dialectical materialism methodology. The sample will be represented by
spokespeople of Luchadores por la Patria Commune. So techniques such as participant observation, semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and descriptive records before, during and after the intervention will be applied. Emerging results from the diagnostic suggest that community participation from the significance of its actors is seen as a representative and not decisive process, there is little willingness of people to be participants in decision-making in situations present in their community and trend of
citizens to act more as objects than as subjects.