Education
We support organizations and educational centers that promote meaningful links so that learning can also be meaningful.
Recognition leads to motivation and joy for knowledge and sharing.
We work with educational communities that seek to place the quality of relationships at the center of their pedagogical project.
We understand that there is no deep learning without meaningful relationships, and that transforming education implies rethinking how we interact in the classroom, among teams, with families and with the environment.
We believe that educating is a relational act and that any sustainable educational improvement begins by recognizing people, taking care of the links and generating conditions that make possible the full development of each member of the community.
I learn when you recognize me
An experience in schools of the Portuguese public school network
We received in Barcelona the team that promotes the Relational Education program in public schools in Sintra, Portugal: Rui Marques, Bruno Parreira, Frederico Eça and João Caravaca.
Together with Joan Quintana, Mora del Fresno and Sílvia Penón, they shared how schools are seeing improvements in learning and links and how relational education is becoming educational policy, strategy and practice.
Fundació Bofill, April 24, 2025.
EDUR
Why, how, and what for measuring relational quality in an educational center
At Instituto Relacional, we asked ourselves what a truly relational school looks like. Inspired by Lila Pinto’s model, we created EDUR, a tool that measures teachers’ perception of relational quality across five key dimensions: teaching, time, assessment, relationships, and spaces. We believe relational aspects should be at the heart of school management, and that having tools like this helps make them visible and actionable.
“We focus on the educational link, the relationships generated in the act of educating and the pedagogy of recognition, with the aim of developing the ability to recognize oneself and other people with their strengths and singularities.”
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