What is the rural school? Some reflections on the teaching reality in the multi-grade classroom

The rural school is a subject treated about form appellant and quite often from a little realisticperspective; the vision of a school different from the graduated school still persists in amplesectors of the society, but, in fact, every time it is more difficult to find pedagogical differencesbetween the classroom multigrade and the classroom of the ordinary school; in this article wereflected envelope which supposedly stays as specific of the pedagogical practice of the ruralschool, and we do from the point of view of which contributes the autonomy to it of learning ofthe students, the paper of the tutorial student in a heterogeneus group, the social micro-systemthat are developed in a space with as much diversity and the pedagogical potential that offersthe rural territory, all this within the framework of a school that of constant form must justifythe pedagogical value of its practice to confront the supremacy of the ordinary school