Rural teaching practices in Globalization contexts

Abstract

The development of new technology breaks the boundaries of the urban and reaches rural contexts in different ways, creating new visions, expectations and challenges to the subjects. The rural school does not remain outside these social phenomena where teachers face the challenge of technology in situations for which they have not been trained. Students with new expectations and demands on the teacher’s role, arising from new forms of socialization, where the use of cell phones, social networks and television programs seem to enter school creating in the teacher the feeling of an “invaded.space “. This paper presents partial results ofa research still in progress taking place in rural schools in the Province of Salta, and inquire about learning situations and the impact of new technologies on teaching practices in primary schools. For this work we state in particular the ways in which these requirements impact from the emotional and professional in the daily work of teachers. Our approach, that is qualitative, seeks to describe the features of teaching practices, to understand the problems at appear in their own areas, opening gaps for further research and reflection on the practices in rural contexts.