Abstract

SILVA, Carlos Manique da. Schools in rural areas and school concentration measures: the case of the geographical area of Pinhal Interior Sul, Portugal (early 21st century). Práxis Educativa [online]. 2022, vol.17, e2218513.  Epub Mar 22, 2022. ISSN 1809-4309.  https://doi.org/10.5212/praxeduc.v.17.18513.004.

This paper seeks to analyze the impact of the closure of non-graded schools and the associated concentration measures (construction of graded schools) on a geographical area of mainland Portugal - Pinhal Interior Sul (PIS), a low-density rural territory -, in the early 21st century. Mobilizing a set of statistical sources (demographic and educational) and also using municipal education policy papers, it aims to ascertain whether this process conformed with the social, economic, and pedagogical reasons based on the idea of rural development from an integrated perspective. More specifically, what development vision was conveyed? What can be concluded is that neither was the regression of the rural world inverted (in fact, it was intensified) nor did the graded school typology seems to have increased the pedagogical capacity of schools.

Keywords : Portugal; Pinhal Interior Sul; Graded school; Rural school; Municipal education policy paper.

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