Community school and school in the community – two development strategies of the rural school and its entities

Abstract

The rural school operates in a specific educational environment. It’s created by rural values: the dignity of the farmer, land, farm, household, farm work, rural family, folk culture, nature.

Integration of curriculum content with rural values ​​creates an opportunity to build the school in the perspective of its development, as well as the development of its entities. In this way, an environmental school is created - deriving content/values ​​inherent in the socio-cultural and natural environment, enriching the implementation of its functions.

A school in the community is an educational and didactic institution that becomes a center of social, cultural and educational animation. A kind of laboratory of new ideas for solutions to current rural problems. It connects the rural environment with a broad supra-local environment, opening new perspectives for the school, its entities and rural residents.