415 Review paper Received: 22 May 2021 Accepted: 28 June 2021 Lana Štefulj, mag. paed. lana.stefulj@gmail.com Barbara Kušević, PhD, Assistant Professor Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb Department of Pedagogy bkusevic@fzg.hr FAMILY, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY COLLABORATION – SCHOOL PEDAGOGUES CAUGHT IN DOUBLE BINDS Abstract: Emphasizing the importance of community collaboration is a re- cent and in Croatian research a relatively unexplored way of positioning fam- ilyschool relationships in the wider exosystem and macrosystem, within which they develop. The aim of this paper is to analyse contradictory expectations school pedagogues are exposed to in the process of family, school and commu- nity collaboration. More specifcally, after analysing the discrepancies between theoretical and legislative articulations of community collaboration and the practical limitations that arise in their implementation, we discuss the respon- sibility of pedagogues to identify specifc needs of families in collaboration with the community contrasted with the remedial and defcit perception of families which can, in doing so, be easily demonstrated, as well as consider the imper- ative theoretical requirements for a close connection between family, school and community contrasted with the managerial and coordinating role that ped- agogues can, due to contextual limitations, take on. The concluding part of the paper ofers guidelines for further research on this topic. Keywords: partnership of family and educational institution, pedagogical pro- fession, remediation paradigm, technocratic approach to education, theory of overlapping spheres of infuence ČLANCI PAPERS