CURRICULUM AND RURAL SCHOOL IN CATALONIA

Abstract

The rural school in Catalonia is characterized by a respectable school curriculum with the rural territory and the pedagogical value of the multi-regulated classroom and by an organization of schools that share educational projects. Educational policy in Catalonia promotes a school rooted in the territory, designed for the territorial dimension, that it is not children who move from one center to another, but specialized teachers who move to implement an inclusive and quality school curriculum. The policy also promotes the appreciation of having children of different ages in the same classroom, the use of teaching strategies to meet the diversity of ages, interests and skills that coexist within the same class and pedagogical model based on learning to learn. This model is based on the development of metacognitive skills in which the teacher does not seek to organize groups of classes by age, but by interests, programming the circulation of knowledge and learning by contagion. It is a way of understanding rural education of real diversity inside and outside the multi-grade classroom and adapting it to the school curriculum, supported by a school organization, Zonas EscolarRural (ZER EscolarRural) (ZER EscolarRural), which allow the development of projects common educational and curricular.