Theoretical framework on community participation through critical thinking in the construction of the Communes.

• Cristina Chirino

• Tibisay Lamus

This article starts from the fact that critical thinking strengthens community participation, it is a primordial tool because it helps citizens to become part of the social transformation required by the country. Today, Venezuela is attempting a transformation, which demands trained citizens to exercise their duties and rights over community participation. Ceballos (2009: 18) argues that “in Venezuela, real participation mechanisms framed in the Constitution are left without effect ...”. This author addresses participation and understands that the laws that govern it are violated. For the analysis carried out, the method of grounded theory was adopted because it uses the comparison of data to generate theories, (Strauss and Corbin, 2002). From this framework, part of the codification made to two parliamentarians of the Commune “Falconian Fighters for the Homeland”. Community participation according to its meanings, is seen as representative, not decisive, there is no willingness of people to be participants in decision-making in community situations. According to the research community participation can be understood as a cyclical process in which the attitude, regulations of the communal councils, leadership and community organization stand out

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