La participación en el aula escolar rural: un reto para la transformación

This work analyses the participation as a way to exert the right to education, as a mean to democratize the learning process and as a channel to achieve pertinence in the educational process. It assumes that parents, students and other members of the community have to be near the school and the classroom not only to collaborate with the tasks traditionally assigned to them but also to develop a new way of participation that involves a construction process of the learning process. To achieve this purpose, the authors enunciate different strategies, useful to the get school and community together.

Realidad de las comunidades rurales de Costa Rica

The purpose of this article is to reflect about current reality experimented in rural communities in our country in order to look for solutions to their problems that allow them to reach a better quality of life. Analyses are made from different perspectives. Within this context, we take into account the role that rural communities have in the development of a country as well as the part education plays in the fight for the achievement of a better quality of life.

El turismo rural: una alternativa de desarrollo para el cantón de Vázquez de Coronado

El cantón de Vázquez de Coronado cuenta con una serie de ventajas competitivas tanto en sus recursos naturales y paisajísticos como en la coordinación entre diversos actores organizacionales comunales, lo cual brinda las condiciones para el desarrollo de actividades de turismo rural; esto acompañado por capacitación y asesoramiento técnico a los empresarios con el propósito de ayudarles a cambiar sus esquemas de gestión familiar y de brindarles una serie de conocimientos estratégicos y de idioma, es la base para impulsar un desempeño importante en la economía de la zona, facilitando una adecuada distribución del ingreso y una mejor calidad de vida de sus habitantes; situación que siempre debe tener como eje orientador el respeto al medio ambiente y a la cultura tradicional del cantón. Abstract The Canton of Vázquez of having Crowned has a many competitive advantages not only in its natural resources and but also in its beautiful landscapes. The advantages joined to the efforts of community forces provide the businessmen of the town receive training on how to manage their enterprises in accordance the environment. Also, in order to promote the economic development of the town, businessmen receive language training facilitating an appropriate distribution of the entrance and a better quality of their inhabitants’ life; this situation that should always be the regulating axis to respect to the environment and the traditional culture of the canton.

Maestría en educación rural centroamericana: hacia un modelo pedagógico flexible

Program in Rural Education” is presented to the national and international community as a high level graduate program, whose purpose is to improve the quality of formal and informal educational processes within the area through an innovative pedagogical model that includes itinerancy along the isthmus, as well as in site and distance learning with a virtual component. Furthermore, this program bases its practice on the development of a flexible model, on inclusiveness and also on a differentiated methodological and evaluative proposal that recovers the knowledge produced in every country around de issue of rural education.

Contributions of the Rural Education Project (PER)

This paper presents the results of the research project “El proceso de formación inicial del Proyecto de Educación Rural (PER)” (creation of the Rural Education Project, PER by its Spanish acronym), conducted between 1984 and 1987 in the Regional Offices of the Ministry of Public Education in San Carlos, Coto and Limón. The Rural Education Project (PER) was implemented by the Center of Research and Teaching in Education (CIDE) of the Universidad Nacional (UNA) aiming at training teachers of single-teacher schools located in rural areas. The objective of our research was to collect the contributions of PER bearing in mind the training processes required today, and considering the success of PER, which was based on the leadership of teachers to promote community progress in rural areas from the classroom, an input to be considered in the new learning processes of Rural Education