School space

architecture for education, spatial configurations and educational processes in rural high schools. Territories, subjects and pedagogical proposals

Abstract

In this writing I present a review of my doctoral thesis called “School space: architecture for education, spatial configurations and educational processes in rural high schools. Territories, subjects and pedagogical proposals”, directed by Dr. María Silvia Serra and co-directed by Dr. Alejandra Castro, within the framework of the Doctorado en Ciencias de la Educación (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba), with a CONICET Doctoral Scholarship. The topic of the thesis revolves around the school space explored from the relationships between architecture for education, spatial configurations and educational processes at the rural secondary level, in three Argentine provinces (Santa Fe, Corrientes y Córdoba). Each of the schools studied is located in a different province, with variety in rural areas, in the pedagogical proposal and school form, and with a different development of the school group. This research shows that the school space in rural secondary schools is characterized by the place of the subjects in the appropriation processes; movements, versatility and ways of constructing limits and borders; and because schools are generators of the common and referents of the public in the territory.