How to strengthen the community rural road? needs of education and training from community voices. Experiences with communities Canton of Naranjo, Costa Rica

This article seeks to establish the relationship between continuing educa-tion and the education and training processes received by the communities of the canton of Naranjo, from the point of view of community leaders who are part of the Community Development Associations and the Roads Committee. These communities participate in a research -extension pro-ject conducted by the School of Sociology of the National University. The methodology was qualitative, using participative techniques such as com-munity workshops, in conjunction with the use of oral sources. It is from their experiences and stories that they give meanings to the training needs required by the communities. These training processes, through continuing education, empower the knowledge capacities of the members of the local organizations, thus allowing the opening and strengthening of community participative venues, not only in their actions, but also in decision-making.