Rural school of San Eduardo
Rural school of San Eduardo and around, Trenque Lauquen, Argentina
| Name | Escuela San Eduardo | |
| Location | Trenque Lauquen, Buenos Aires | |
| Country | Argentina | |
| Authors | Alejandra Gutierrez | |
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Short Introduction to the Area of Study
The area under study is located in the center of Argentina in a plain area of big farms devoted to agriculture, livestock and milk production. It is a very well communicated area through a net of dirt and paved roads. In the middle of a productive landscape, the rural school of San Eduardo is a meeting point, a landmark, a meeting place for adults and the only place where the sons and daughters of rural workers can get education.
This area is important to me because I have worked in a farm and in the school in the coordination of a Rural Development Project through which twenty women were trained to generate handcrafts small enterprises. Now, I am doing my Doctorate research in Anthropology, where I explore how children and women living in the area see and feel their everyday landscape.
Exercise 1: Sketching the Landscape
Time frame: October 25 - November 15, 2011
Student activities:
- Creation of analytical drawings and sketches
- Presentation of results
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Exercise 2: Landscape Layers
Time frame: November 15 - 29, 2011
- time based changes and 'landscape biography', and/or:
- topography, open spaces, built, green, traffic and water structures on different layers. *Definition of zones with coherent character
- Description of this character.
Prehistoric landscape
Mapuche landscape
The dessert landscape
Farm landscape
The Green Desert landscape
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Exercise 3: Behaviour Patterns
Time frame: December 6 - 20, 2011
- How do people behave in this area? How do they use the space? What is important for them?
- Observation of study area, interviews with local people and mapping of use patterns.
- Preparation of short presentation
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- How do people behave in this area? How do they use the space? What is important for them?
The school of San Eduardo has around 28 pupils and most of them (80%) live in the farms. They go from home to the school by moto, horse, by walking and by a mini bus. In summer they go to the school in the mornings and in winter they go in the afternoons. Out of these times the school is empty unless there are somme adult capacitation at night. In farms, land is devoted to soybean production, cattle for milk production, and horse (for instance horses to play polo). The use of the space depends on the kind of production, the season, the weather, the size of the farm and general economic conditions.
Workers devoted to animal production live in the farms, the farm owner live in the city as people that is devoted to agriculture. They travel everyday from the farms to the city and the other way around. There is a high use of the roads, in cars, trucks and agricultural machines specially during the day. In winter it is possible to find hunters of wild rubbits during the night that go very slowly by the road.
For all of them is very important the state of the road, to have a good road to get into the city and back home.
Observation of study area, interviews with local people and mapping of use patterns.
I did a fiel research during November with 10 pupils of the school. On of the activities was a worshops of photogrpahy by which they took pictures of the school, the travel they do everyday and took pictures at their home place. I could observe through their pictures their everyday landscapes and how they get to school. I talked to the teachers and with the driver man of the mini bus who is colllecting the girls and boys in the entrance of the farms. From there, they go home by horse, bike, walking or their parents wait for them in a car.
Besides, I know how people work and manage the farms because I have worked in the area for almost ten years. I know that the use of the internal space of the farms depends on the prduction and the crops. In general it could be said that there is a tendency to take out the fences to have bigger plots to make agriculture, that there is less animals and they are brought to the lowest parts of the fields where it is not possible to make agrioculture because of the worst quality of land.
Exercise 4: Communication Concepts
Time frame: December 19, 2011 - January 17, 2012
- Based on the different landscape assessment approaches students will develop a communication concept for their area of study
- Which measures would be necessary for enhancing the awareness for the area?
- Students are free to choose their method.
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