Extension practices in the face of the challenges of rural schools in pandemic and post-pandemic situations

Abstract

We propose here to socialize an ongoing extension experience linked to rural secondary education in a post-pandemic context. It arises from the articulation between a multidisciplinary university team and a peasant organization: the Peasant Movement of Córdoba (MCC), which carries out its own educational project through the opening of Peasant Schools in the northwest of Córdoba. These experiences of formal and non-formal education, which have been developed since 2004, offer an educational alternative to young people and adults who could not start or complete their schooling processes through educational completion programs (PIT and CENMA). The general objective of the extension project is to accompany the educational communities of the rural schools of Pichanas and El Quicho in the context of pandemic and post-pandemic. Throughout the article, after contextualizing the schools and expressing the epistemic and political positioning in relation to the extensionist practices, the process of construction of the demand and the definition of the work proposal that arises from it are first presented, and then the different experiences carried out jointly by the extensionist team and the educational community are shared. In closing, some general and provisional considerations are offered on the experiences carried out.