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Rurality and education relations: Metro-centricity and local values inrural communities and rural schools
University of Gothenburg. (PAUS)
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2019 (English)In: European Educational Research Journal, E-ISSN 1474-9041, Vol. 18, no 1, p. 19-33Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

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 present in some schools and people there explicitly positioned themselves in the local rural context and valorised rurality positively in education exchanges, content and interactions, with positive effects on young people’s experiences of participation and inclusion. These factors tended to occur in sparsely populated areas. An emphasis on nature and its value as materially vital in people’s lives was present as was a critique of middle-class metrocentricity. Such values and critique seemed to be absent in other areas, where rurality was instead often represented along the metrocentric lines of a residual space in modernizing societies.

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2019. Vol. 18, no 1, p. 19-33
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Rural, urban, education markets, ethnography, multi-sited ethnography
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Educational Sciences
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Teacher Education and Education Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-15645DOI: 10.1177/1474904118780420ISI: 000455400300002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85048751193OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-15645DiVA, id: diva2:1277244
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Swedish Research CouncilAvailable from: 2019-01-09 Created: 2019-01-09 Last updated: 2023-03-28Bibliographically approved

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