School and territory: rural school zones in Catalonia

Authors

  • Montserrat Solé i Huguet Mestra de Primària i Màster en Educació Inclusiva. Facultat d’Educació, Traducció i Ciències Humanes. Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya

Keywords:

Rural schools, education policies, organization, demography.

Abstract

For some years now, the Rural School Secretariat of Catalonia (SERC in Catalan, an organization grouping all the rural schools in Catalonia) has been giving serious thought to the e concept of «rural school zone» (ZER, in Catalan), due to the importance that is now given to this type of organization. In this article we seek to describe the rural school zones evolution in order to expand the fields of study in connection with the debate that SERC proposes about the real meaning of having ZERs at present. In order to do that, first we make a summary of the historical tendencies of the rural schools throughout the 20th century, which provides us with the real reason why rural schools were created. Secondly, and taking into account the sentimental motivations and the needs that led to its creation, the first fifteen Catalan ZERs are presented, explaining in detail the evolution of each one from its beginning up to the present. Finally, an analysis is made of this progress so as to determine the reasons for the changes that may have occurred throughout this period of time and how they may have modified the initial meaning of ZERs.

Keywords
Rural schools, education policies, organization, demography.

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Solé i Huguet, M. (2016). School and territory: rural school zones in Catalonia. Revista Catalana De Pedagogia, 10, 75–93. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/RCP/article/view/142223

Issue

Vol. 10 (2016)

Section

Monographic issue

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