History of personal development of teachers in the province of Granada in the rural context. Study of cases

Estudio de casos.

Abstract

A window overlooking the rural school. This article tries to capture the reality of education in the rural context, of the people who work in this school and what personal an professional experiences have led them to teach there.

Based on the problems and difficulties related to the rural school and the teachers who work in it, a case study is carried out whose purpose is to know, as far as possible, what aspects of the lives of these three subjects are those that more they have influenced and conditioned them to carry out their teaching work in the rural context.

For this work, the life history and personal development technique is used, for which the following steps have been followed: preparation of an interview protocol, transcription of the interviews, qualitative analysis of the responses through the design of category system and finally, an inventory of values. Through the interviews and their analysis, it is also known the vision that these teachers have about the place in which they carry out their educational practice. All the material used has been prepared taking into account the protocol designed by Atkinson (1997), carrying out the appropriate adaptations for the information to be collected and analysed. Likewise, the interview protocol was exhaustively reviewed by three professionals in the field.