Análisis de necesidades educativas curriculares en la educación primaria dirigida a niños (as) nicaragüenses migrantes en Costa Rica

The intention of the article is to announce the needs of a curriculum Identified in the Nicaraguan migrant children that study at the rural primary school “Los Angeles” in the location of Los Chiles Costa Rica. They actually are in an exclusion, discrimination and indifference situation from the local institutions. There are strong obstacles for the effective learning and development of positive attitudes, lack of responsible participation of the educative community; the methodological procedure used at the classrooms and the curricular adjustment at the pedagogical official model from Costa Rica, divorced those, from the sociocultural conditions of the children, their families and the rural community where they live. This situation affects the children motivation, for not achieve educational goals, the few that register at primary school doesn´t end it and those that complete it have academic difficulties to enter at high school. The time has come for the educational systems from both countries –Nicaragua and Costa Rica– to consider joint educational strategies that can give an answer to the educational curricular needs that the Nicaraguan migrant children presents at the rural schools in Costa Rica.

An Environmental Management Experience Within the Project: Improvement of Educational Opportunities in Rural Environmental Management in Sarapiqui and Guapiles’ Schools

A very important aspect of worldwide education and, particularly for Costa Rican education, is the environmental management as an educational strategy. For this reason, this article describes the experience of the project Mejora de la Oferta Educativa en Gestión Ambiental Rural (MOE-GAR) during its first stage in 2009. The population was comprised by teachers from different areas of the rural school districts of Guapiles and Sarapiquí. As a part of this project, we worked with teachers, different government and nongovernment institutions, throughout the 2009 school year; obtaining as a result, a process of knowledge development in environmental management. Based on this, several proposals were developed in different educational institutions.

Training and Updating of Education Boards in Indigenous Schools of Rural Areas: Strengthening Local Education Management

Education management in the schools of indigenous rural areas faces a number of difficulties to implement and comply with the guidelines and requirements of the laws related to budgetary management of resources allocated to Education or Administrative Boards. In addition to being located in scattered rural areas, far from the municipal heads and regional offices of the Ministry of Public Education, one of the main obstacles is that all regulations, laws and guidelines are written in Spanish, and there is people, in this indigenous rural communities, who do not speak, write, read or understand this language. This puts them at an enormous disadvantage, which has a direct impact on the indigenous children’s right to education.

Los desafíos de la agroindustria rural frente a la globalización

Los efectos positivos y negativos de la globalización sobre  el desarrollo de la agroindustria rural (AIR) obligan a un cuidadoso análisis sobre su situación actual y su evolución teniendo en cuenta los cambios del entorno económico, político y social. A partir de dos estudios de casos (queserías rurales de Perú y las parafinadoras de yuca en Costa Rica) realizamos una reflexión sobre el debate actual del rol que debe cumplir un sistema agroalimentario localizado (SIAL): permitir acceder a mercados globalizados o re-localizar actividades para aprovechar ventajas territoriales. Esta investigación muestra la importancia del desarrollo de una concentración de AIR para valoriza un producto tradicional con saber-hacer local y el éxito cuando se siguen dos etapas sucesivas: una re-localización de actividades y posteriormente la búsqueda de acceso en mercados globales.   ABSTRACT The positive and negative effects of globalization on the development of rural agroindustry (AIR) force an exhaustive analysis about their present situation and its evolution considering changes in economic, politic and social environment. From two cases of study (rural cheesemaker in Peru and the cassava “parafinadoras” in Costa Rica) we made an analysis of the discussion about the contribution of localized agrifood systems : to allow access to globalized markets or re-locate activities to take profit of territorial advantages. This article shows the importance of the development of AIR´s concentration for the valorizing of a traditional product with kwon-how and the success when two successive stages are followed: a re-location of activities and later, the search of access in global markets.

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