Inter-school collaboration, management networks, and learning communities in the educational projects of rural schools in the Magallanes region

Abstract

This article examines conceptions of educational collaboration, school management networks, and learning communities, and their articulation within Institutional Educational Projects (PEI) in rural education contexts in the Magallanes region. To this end, the study analyzes the emerging semantic fields surrounding these notions in the aforementioned projects of twelve (12) rural schools administered by the Local Public Education Service (SLEP-Magallanes). This analysis allows for the identification of core meanings embedded in these strategic planning instruments, which are oriented toward promoting educational improvement and the territorial relevance of rural schools within the Chilean public education system. Therefore, it is of interest to examine these foundational notions in contemporary educational practice and to explore their programmatic presence or absence in rural education contexts located in territories geographically and institutionally distant from public policy decision-making centers, such as the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic region.