Author, as appears in the article.: Girbés-Peco S; Renta-Davids A; De Botton L; Álvarez-Cifuentes P

Department: Pedagogia

URV's Author/s: ÁLVAREZ CIFUENTES, PILAR / Renta Davids, Ana Inés

Keywords: Urban poverty Urban agriculture Spain School Power Participation Parental involvement Moroccan immigrants Management Leadership Inclusion Governance Driven development Deliberation Community development Collective action

Abstract: © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Previous research has identified the potential of community-based development processes to reverse inequalities. However, in many cases, constraints arise that hinder the achievement of community goals. This article focuses on the role contributed by a school to overcome these barriers. Specifically, we address the role played by the Mare de Déu de Montserrat School, which is a Learning Community, in the launch and development of a community-based process. Known as The Dream, this process was initiated by a group of unemployed Moroccan residents in an impoverished urban neighbourhood in Spain. Through this process, the neighbours have created a self-managed community garden, which has enabled them to improve their job training and build social networks. Based on the communicative methodology, our qualitative study finds that this school has contributed to the creation of specific conditions that helped to overcome some barriers that had hindered the emergence of community responses. In addition, the contributions of the school have promoted a horizontal and dialogical organization of the process, placing neighbours in central positions in decision-making and leadership roles. This case study provides relevant theoretical and practical implications for the contributions that certain school-based interventions can provide to promote community initiatives in impoverished environments.

Thematic Areas: Human geography and urban studies Geography, planning and development Geography Geografia i urbanisme Geografía General o multidisciplinar Environmental studies Cultural studies Comunicação e informação Ciencias sociales

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 1464-9365

Author's mail: anaines.renta@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-0145-5141

Record's date: 2023-03-11

Journal volume: 21

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Link to the original source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649365.2018.1509112

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Social & Cultural Geography. 21 (5): 674-696

APA: Girbés-Peco S; Renta-Davids A; De Botton L; Álvarez-Cifuentes P (2020). The Montserrat’s neighbourhood dream: involving Moroccan residents in a school-based community development process in urban Spain. Social & Cultural Geography, 21(5), 674-696. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2018.1509112

Article's DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2018.1509112

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2020

Publication Type: Journal Publications