Rural school: from social object to study object

Authors

  • Rui Canário Universidade do Porto, Porto

Keywords:

Rural School, Educational Innovation, School and Community.

Abstract

This paper proposes a theoretical reflection on how to transform a social object (a small rural school) into a study object, having a project of educational intervention in the rural world as its empirical reference. At stake is the Rural School Project which has been developed in Portugal by Instituto das Comunidades Educativas (ICE) since 1994. The relevance of such a theme stems from the assumption that rural school features (small scale, proximity, single class heterogeneity) can be taken as resources for the production of new pedagogic practices, making of it a sort of “laboratory” for a “different” school. From this perspective, rural school emerges not as something obsolete but as a future-bearing reality. Besides, this issue of rural schools and their future is approached in a much wider context which has to do with civilizational matters: is there any future for the rural world?

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Canário, R. (2008). Rural school: from social object to study object. Education, 33(1), 33–44. Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufsm.br/reveducacao/article/view/17

Issue

educação v. 33, n. 1, jan./abr. 2008

Section

Dossier: Education at the Countryside

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