Education and territory SO missionary school mandatory secondary in the rural context

Abstract

This article is focused on secondary education, regulated as mandatory since National Education Law promulgated in 2006. It considers how this law is applied in rural context of SW of Misiones province. We analyze how the access, the election of orientation and the end of secondary level is related with formation in agrarian work, both as part of projects of rural or urban future of adults and youth. We are presenting results of an ethnographic study conducted since 2009, with students of high grades of a rural elementary school located 4 km from San Ignacio city. Seeing students’ progress along these five years, we studied also our fieldwork to a secondary agrarian school, and other institutions where these graduates usually attend. We also visited families` farms and made interviews with local referents, because this research is focused in formative experience in agrarian tasks, and their relations with formal agrarian education.