Family: yesterday as today, permanent educator

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Sarmento, Teresa, Alves, Sónia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.7559/gestaoedesenvolvimento.2019.382

The family, as the first instance of formation and socialization of the child, who remains as a lifelong permanent educator, seems to continue not to attract the interest that would be desirable on the part of the investigators, reason why it continues being perceived a little like a "black box", that is, whose operation is registered in its students but hidden in public terms. In this text the family institution is approached in terms of conceptualization, functions and successive structural re-creations, trying to contribute to a better apprehension of the complexity of the educational phenomenon, assuming the indispensability of the family in this process and the "immeasurable weight it has in the development of people "(Caeiro, 2005: 21). In a reflexive posture, an analysis is presented around the various family typologies - from the more traditional to the postmodern ones - with emphasis on the social functions that have always been and continue to be attributed.