A NEW HIGH SCHOOL ON A REMOTE RURAL AREA. SOCIAL RESEARCH PROJECT ON STUDENTS PERCEPTIONS ON A NEW EDUCATIONAL HORIZON AND SOCIAL LIFE IN THE RURAL AREA

The arrival of the last two years of Secondary School to a depopulated rural area of the mountains of Valencia during the 2016-17 course has meant a change of life for a handful of families of four villages. The existence of the center implies that the students of the new course at IES de Vilafranca can go back every afternoon home, reducing the stays away from home, which meant moving to study in other places 100 km away. This relocation of their teenage lives, closer to their families, contains a series of changes that can be important in the perceptions of life in the rural environment, their immediate projects or in the medium to long term, also of course, in family negotiations. In this sense, the role of the educational center can be fundamental. Right now, its pilot program, being the only IES shared between autonomous communities, so is a challenge for the entire educational community involved. The uniqueness of experience raises, in fact, many questions from any educational, researcher or researcher who is minimally interested in the territory, in the rural school, in the development and sustainability of rural areas, in the future of young people ... The youngsters and young people who make up the students group of this educational center will open a new scenario of training and vital projections that will affect their relationship with the language they use and with the other language they come into contact with in a nonexistent way previously. Consequently, it can not be a thrilling phenomenon to observe and with which to understand a series of situations, speeches, ideologies, attitudes, construction of identities ... incardinated at a significant time (adolescence), in a critical demographic environment (rural mountain) and with horizons of the future little hopeful (precariousness).