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Alicia López Pardo
Mesa Galega de Educación no Rural
Spain
Biography
Francisco Xosé Candia Durán
University of Santiago de Compostela
Spain
Biography
No 24 (2014): Topics: "School mediation" and "Rural school", Topic: a rural school
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/ie.24.2218
Submitted: 10-11-2014 Accepted: 12-11-2014 Published: 02-12-2014
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Abstract

Such a complex and yet so transcendent for Galician country such as education in rural areas needs, at this point of the twentieth century, hindsight and at the same time, criticism that emphasizes on the most important milestones in the singular history of its defense, with its ups and downs, from the 70s of last century to the times we live.

In this article we try to offer the indispensable references to characterize minimally those teaching communities that confronted, from the pedagogical rigor and the community commitment, the study and the defense of the Galician rural field, and that fought intellectually and with their direct action in the classroom for one, fair, public, decent quality education, and adapted to the rural context, to its people and its language and culture.

Taking the thread of the memory through these four decades, we will be revealing and analyzing events, some almost forgotten, that allow to suggest and highlight the important historical role played by the various social movements that were set to defend the rural education.

The Mesa Galega de Educación no Rural (Galician Board of Rural Education) holds a worthy place among them, an organization born as a representative platform for the demands of professional groups in this matter; with nearly twenty years of travel behind, today is still poorly known. To do justice to the importance of its mission, it is necessary that we offer in this contribution a minimum record of its contributions and its path, which bind us to the present, an uncertain time that gives us hope (as we review the work performed by teachers and rural communities) and disappointment (considering the kind of attention usually dispensed by governments to education in rural areas).

http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/ie.24.2218

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