Reflections on rural education in the frame of Communication-Education

• Main Author: Óscar Julián Cuesta Moreno
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Sergio Arboleda 2008-12-01
• Series: Civilizar
• Subjects: Communication- education; rural education; alternative mass media; new
• Online Access: http://www.usergioarboleda.edu.co/civilizar/revista15/REFLEXIONES.pdf

The Colombian rural life is energized by its unique forms of production,peculiar traditions, cultural forms and its special knowledge. Consequently, rural education acquires a complexity because of these and other categories, which is why the teaching-learning process transcends the traditional school structure. This paper presents the models which have transformed this process and which are based on curriculum contents formulated from the reality of diverse rural communities. Mainly, it presents some thoughts about theaforementioned situation of communication - education, a field that ends to the training of critical and participatory subjects; to this end, it appeals, among other things, to alternative mass media. Finally, it proposes to link these media with the educational rural process in a planned way.