The rural school in the initial training plans of teacher education in the Catalan universities. Twenty years of the Rural School Interuniversity Group Authors Grup Interuniversitari d’Escola Rural Grup Interuniversitari d’Escola Rural (Coordinadora: Conxa Torres) Keywords: Rural education, rural school, initial teacher training, university, multigrade teaching. Abstract This paper seeks to present the Rural School Interuniversity Group (GIER, in Catalan), a team of teachers from all the Catalan universities, formed over the course of twenty years. GIER ensures the presence of the rural school in the curricula of the respective faculties. In order to do so, it collaboratively organizes an annual conference on the rural school for university students in addition to carrying out other specific activities.This article discusses the impact and repercussions of these issues on the curriculum of each participating university.KeywordsRural education; rural school; initial teacher training; university; multigrade teaching. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) How to Cite d’Escola Rural, G. I. (2016). The rural school in the initial training plans of teacher education in the Catalan universities. Twenty years of the Rural School Interuniversity Group. Revista Catalana De Pedagogia, 10, 163–175. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/RCP/article/view/142229 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 10 (2016) Section Miscellaneous License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Revista Catalana de Pedagogia, authors accept the following terms: Authors grant to Societat Catalana de Pedagogia (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Revista Catalana de Pedagogia. Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Pedagogia for the authorship and originality of submitted articles. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles. Societat Catalana de Pedagogia declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors. The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it. The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.