Choice, Cost and Community: The Hidden Complexities of the Rural Primary School Market

Autor/in	Walker, Marion
Titel	Choice, Cost and Community: The Hidden Complexities of the Rural Primary School Market
Quelle	In: Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 38 (2010) 6, S.712-727 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-1432
DOI	10.1177/1741143210379059
Schlagwörter	School Closing; Small Schools; Rural Schools; Primary Education; Cost Effectiveness; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Educational Finance; School Choice; Interviews; Observation; Parent Attitudes; School Districts; School Community Relationship; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); School; Schools; Rural area; Rural areas; Ländlicher Raum; Schulen; Primarbereich; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Bildungsfonds; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Beobachtung; Elternverhalten; School district; Schulbezirk
Abstract	National rural policy places the local primary school as a key resource within the rural community, yet as a consequence of countywide financial constraints, some small schools are undergoing reorganization, involving amalgamation, federation and school closure. This article considers the complexities involved in the workings of the English rural primary school market for parents and for schools, the cost dilemma of providing primary education for local authorities and the perception that the local school provides a key service to the rural community. Using primary data collected through interviews and observations the article focuses on a small school operating under the threat of closure, and the ensuing campaign by the "education-insider" parents to save their school from closure as the local authority attempts to balance school and community service delivery with cost effectiveness. The article argues that the previously hidden consequence of cost logic is an aspect largely overlooked both in the rhetoric of the school at the heart of the rural community and in the rhetoric of parental choice. (Contains 7 notes and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10