strategy
Providing rural education
Synonyms:
Rural schoolingEducating rural communities
Implementation:
The Barrio Development School programme in the Philippines is for the barrio youth who has decided to stay, live and work in the barrio as a farm operator. The school curriculum is composed of a supervised farming programme reinforced by classroom instruction in production agriculture, tool subjects and citizenship subjects. The students are able to acquire the skills of production and they also learn to cope with problems of supply, labour, credit and marketing. The ultimate success of this scheme lies in the ability of the graduate to establish their own economic-scale farming projects. Broader:
EducatingExpanding schoolingSupporting rural developmentPromoting community self-confidence Constrained by:
Limiting availability of education in the country Facilitates:
Training in rural development Facilitated by:
Developing rural communitiesPromoting interests of rural youthIdentifying obstacles to village educationRegularizing outside instruction in rural communitiesAppreciating relevance of formal education in rural communities Problems:
Limited availability of education in rural areasOutmoded functional skills in rural communities
Values:
EducationOvereducation References:
Bray, Mark: Are Small Schools the Answer ?: cost-effective strategies for rural school provision Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
