Community intervention in the university context to enhance the cultural development of families

Abstract

The modern university has the mission of training competent professionals, capable of preserving, developing and promoting the strengthening of the cultural development of students and the community, through academic, research and social-laboral practice processes. The present work aims to present the results of a community intervention in the university context of the Preschool Education career, to raise the cultural development of families. The intervention was conceived taking into account three basic processes: planning, execution, evaluation and control, and to guarantee, as previous steps, the study of the programs of disciplines and subjects of the career, to determine the didactic treatment of the contents required for the community intervention from the academic, scientific and labor practice; the main needs of the community and the preparation of the students for the fulfillment of the tasks. The research was developed through the application of a Pedagogical Quasi-experiment and the use of theoretical and empirical methods (interviews, observation, document analysis, and statistics for data collection and processing. The comparison of the results between the experimental and control groups, before and after the community intervention was applied, allowed to verify its effectiveness from the elevation of the cultural development of the families in the experimental group, in the motivational-regulatory, cognitive, attitudinal and communicative dimensions. The essential differences of the results of each dimension not only differ significantly between the groups, but the group as a whole is able to distinguish very well the cultural development of the families after the intervention actions were applied.