Education as a help to the growth considering relational approach

Abstract

The Welfare State´s typical modern society has been based since its´ earliest times on the structural-functionalist theory according to functional/non-functional dichotomy, while using the lib/lab code through which the Market and the State have set themselves as the only producers and distributors of wellness eliminating the solidarity and reciprocity flows. All these has led to an individualist, ethically neutral culture based on the performance, efficiency, productivity and utility in which the person is brought up adquiring different skills and competences through both, theoretical and practical knowledge, willing to obtain a more appropriate and efficient adaptation to the social structures, such as the State, the Market, different firms, social organizations...carrying out a specific role that defines each member as the person they are. However, considering Donati´s Relational Theory we recognize the critical need of a new “societal” citizenship that introduces a solidarity principle and an exchange and reciprocity code as the new emerging values that demand the concurrence of all social systems (State, Market, Family and Third Sector) in the well-being achievement process. This is how a new sense of relational, associative culture is introduced, claiming for a new perspective when conceiving education as a whole, intellectually, professionally, socially and relationally.