Vinculándose al territorio: el ApS y la participación comunitaria. Estudio de caso en una escuela rural

The school opening to the community is considered essential in order to cover its social needs and to favour its democratization. This study, carried out in an Associated Rural School (CRA), is intended to find out what the perception of the community about a Service Learning (ApS) project is to improve the school and also to know about their participation in it. It is a qualitative case study that collects the vision of two mothers, the tutor, the councilor of education, the students of the sixth form class, a neighbor and two students of the Universitat Jaume I (UJI), through the technique of the interview, the observation and documentary analysis. The results show discrepancies between the ApS methodology and a more traditional one and a minor participation of the educational community. In conclusion, the ability of the ApS to link the school with organized agents of the territory is confirmed, as long as the school has a school culture of openness to the community.