@article{MateoAsensio:30941, author = "Mateo Asensio, Marina and Rubio Terrado, Pascual", title = "{"El Colegio Rural Agrupado Palancia-Mijares"}", year = "2014", note = "This Final Project Degree is an investigation about rural schools and an organisational model of Grouping Rural Centre, (what is known as CRA: Centro Rural Agrupado). This thematic field is very interesting because of the uncertain future that a lot of rural classrooms present and the doubts about the efficacy of the training that the students receive in this kind of schools. In connection with the structure of this project, after some reflection about the concepts of rural territory and grouping rural centre, I will analyse the strategies, procedures and activities that teachers use in this field. This is done so with the twofold purpose of: first, discussing critically how to organise and develop the teaching learning process in the Infant education level; and second, making a proposal related to how to improve it. To do this, I study a concrete centre, the Palancia-Mijares CRA (grouping rural centre), located between the areas or lands of Alto Palancia and Alto Mijares, in the inner western side of the province of Castellón. I explain the characteristics of the territory, its organisational structure and its basic particularities concerning the teaching learning process. All this has allowed me to detect the strong and weak points of the teaching-learning system and also to make a proposal for the improvement of the educational process of teaching and learning under the conditions found in the CRAs or grouping rural centres. Methodologically, this work combines: first, a bibliographic review about the rural school and the territory of the four classrooms of the CRA Palancia-Mijares; second, the consultation of the statistical resources of CRA villages published by Valenciana Community; and third, fieldwork developed in the classrooms and materialised in the interviews maintained with the teachers of the level of Infant Education of this school.", }