Rural environment – a space for school education of children

Abstract

The article discusses rural environment as a space for school education of children. At the beginning, it looks into the concept of “environment” and its typology in the context of social pedagogy. ubsequently, the rural environment and its transformation processes, including contemporary times, are characterized – two important dates that contributed to them, i.e. 1989 and 2004 are mentioned – “Rural Poland 2018. The report on the State of Rural Areas”. Rural education has been discussed in the context of rural characteristics and proved to be as diversified as Polish rural environment. Based on the literature analysis, it can be assumed that, in spite of dynamic transformation processes affecting both rural and urban societies, the quality of rural education is lower as compared to education in urban areas.