Rurality and education relations: Metro-centricity and local values in rural communities and rural schools

• Published in: European educational research journal EERJ Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 19 - 33
• Main Authors: Beach, Dennis, Johansson, Monica, Öhrn, Elisabet, Rönnlund, Maria, Per-Åke, Rosvall
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2019
• Subjects: Criticism; Economic Factors; education markets; Educational Attitudes; Educational Experience; Educational Opportunities; Educational Policy; educational work; Ethnography; Foreign Countries; Forestry; Inclusion; Local Issues; Middle Class; multi-sited ethnography; Neighborhood Schools; Pedagogik; pedagogiskt arbete; Pedagogy; Place Based Education; Rural; Rural Areas; Rural Schools; Rural Urban Differences; Social Values; urban; Sweden; Rural; multi-sited ethnography; urban; ethnography; education markets

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in six different types of rural area and their schools in different parts of Sweden, this article identifies how rural schools relate to the local place and discusses some of the educational implications from this. Recurrent references to the local community were pres...