LEARNING COMMUNITIES: DEMOCRATIZATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL CENTERS.

The present text focuses on presenting the Learning Community proposal as a methodological way to generate democratic change in the school system by using practices based on communicative dialogue. Specifically, it describes the development of learning communities in Brazil and at the same time it evaluates the efficacy of its implementation within the Brazilian context. It is, therefore, organized in 3 distinct sections: 1) an introduction to its theme; 2) a description of the present context, which requires a new way to organize places devoted to learning; and 3) a presentation of the learning community proposal. The article is finalized with a brief argumentative conclusion in favor of the learning community proposal.