Assessing the Impact of Twenty-First Century Rural School Consolidation

Autor/in	Surface, Jeanne
Titel	Assessing the Impact of Twenty-First Century Rural School Consolidation
Quelle	In: International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 6 (2011) 2, (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2155-9635
Schlagwörter	Consolidated Schools; Qualitative Research; Rural Schools; School Closing; Context Effect; Social Capital; Child Development; Sociocultural Patterns; Educational History; School Community Relationship; School Role; Cost Effectiveness; Program Effectiveness; Politics of Education; Brain Drain; Relocation; Young Adults; School Districts; Grounded Theory; Case Studies; Community Change; Community Development; Community Characteristics; Community Resources; Grief; Nebraska + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Consolidated school; Mittelpunktschule; Zentralschule; Qualitative Forschung; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; School closings; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Sozialkapital; Kindesentwicklung; Soziokulturelle Theorie; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Umsetzung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; School district; Schulbezirk; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Community; Development; Entwicklung; Trauer
Abstract	The purpose of the study was to make a qualitative assessment of the impact of school consolidation on several rural Nebraska communities that have recently lost their schools. This research uses a multiple-case study design with interviews conducted in three Nebraska communities. The data from this research fell into four broad themes: social capital changes resulting from consolidation, the effect of the consolidation on the children of the community, the future of the community, and circumstances driving consolidation. Data indicates very differing views about consolidation; respondents with children in school were generally supportive of the consolidation and felt that it benefited their children; the respondents all expressed a concern about the loss of the community although, the majority of the respondents did not have an alternative to the loss and decline of the community; the consolidations in the study were all second or third consolidations and respondents believed the original consolidation were the beginning of the decline of the community. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	NCPEA Publications. Web site: http://www.ncpeapublications.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10