Rural education in boyacá, strengths and weaknesses from teachers’ viewpoint

This work makes explicit some strengths and weaknesses of the rural area in relation to the urban one from teachers’ viewpoint about some aspects of the educational context and the institutional needs in the provinces of Centro, Tundama and Sugamuxi (Boyacá). The final sample consisted of 434 teache...

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Main Authors: Lucía Herrera Torres, Rafael Enrique Buitrago Bonilla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2015-07-01
Series:Praxis & Saber
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Online Access:http://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/praxis_saber/article/view/3768
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spelling doaj-e682778a39a24e68b9dd41f12c2551132020-11-25T01:57:40ZengUniversidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia Praxis & Saber2216-01592015-07-0161216919010.19053/22160159.37683228Rural education in boyacá, strengths and weaknesses from teachers’ viewpointLucía Herrera Torres0Rafael Enrique Buitrago Bonilla1Universidad de GranadaUniversidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de ColombiaThis work makes explicit some strengths and weaknesses of the rural area in relation to the urban one from teachers’ viewpoint about some aspects of the educational context and the institutional needs in the provinces of Centro, Tundama and Sugamuxi (Boyacá). The final sample consisted of 434 teachers. A questionnaire on the current educational situation in rural and urban schools of Boyacá was used for data collection. The content validity of the questionnaire was analyzed through the Expert Judgment Technique. As for the internal consistency, Cronbach alpha was 0.79. The main results revealed significant differences in the relationship between teachers and students -better in the rural area- as well as in the needs -rural institutions had higher requirements.http://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/praxis_saber/article/view/3768educación ruralrelaciones interpersonalesnecesidades institucionales
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Rural education in boyacá, strengths and weaknesses from teachers’ viewpoint
Praxis & Saber
educación rural
relaciones interpersonales
necesidades institucionales
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Rafael Enrique Buitrago Bonilla
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title Rural education in boyacá, strengths and weaknesses from teachers’ viewpoint
title_short Rural education in boyacá, strengths and weaknesses from teachers’ viewpoint
title_full Rural education in boyacá, strengths and weaknesses from teachers’ viewpoint
title_fullStr Rural education in boyacá, strengths and weaknesses from teachers’ viewpoint
title_full_unstemmed Rural education in boyacá, strengths and weaknesses from teachers’ viewpoint
title_sort rural education in boyacá, strengths and weaknesses from teachers’ viewpoint
publisher Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
series Praxis & Saber
issn 2216-0159
publishDate 2015-07-01
description This work makes explicit some strengths and weaknesses of the rural area in relation to the urban one from teachers’ viewpoint about some aspects of the educational context and the institutional needs in the provinces of Centro, Tundama and Sugamuxi (Boyacá). The final sample consisted of 434 teachers. A questionnaire on the current educational situation in rural and urban schools of Boyacá was used for data collection. The content validity of the questionnaire was analyzed through the Expert Judgment Technique. As for the internal consistency, Cronbach alpha was 0.79. The main results revealed significant differences in the relationship between teachers and students -better in the rural area- as well as in the needs -rural institutions had higher requirements.
topic educación rural
relaciones interpersonales
necesidades institucionales
url http://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/praxis_saber/article/view/3768
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