The rural school in the initial training of early childhood and primary school teachers: A field to be explored

Abstract

Rural schools are often the first experience of teaching. However, the curricula of the qualifications that give access to teaching do not usually reflect specific training around this topic, except in some specific optional subjects. In this sense, a documentary analysis was developed with the purpose of analyzing the introduction of rural schools in the teaching guides of Early Childhood Degrees and Primary Education Degrees in the Spanish context (2 224 documents analyzed). The results showed that the training acquired at university does not guarantee the specificity of skills for this type of school when facing an organization and operation different from that of the majority urban school. The conclusions indicate the scarce presence of rural schools in the training plans of future teachers, both with regard to the offer of specific disciplinary subjects and in others with a more transversal character.