A Research Agenda for Rural Education: Information Needs and Necessary Initiatives. Mini-Report No. 1 of Evaluation and Documentation of Experimental Schools Program for Small Schools Serving Rural Areas. [Report No.: AAI-76-39

Autor/inn/en	Fitzsimmons, Stephen J.; und weitere
Institution	Abt Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
Titel	A Research Agenda for Rural Education: Information Needs and Necessary Initiatives. Mini-Report No. 1 of Evaluation and Documentation of Experimental Schools Program for Small Schools Serving Rural Areas. [Report No.: AAI-76-39
Quelle	(1976), (42 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Community Involvement; Community Resources; Consolidated Schools; Curriculum Development; Decision Making; Educational Innovation; Educational Needs; Educational Resources; Information Needs; Inservice Teacher Education; National Surveys; Parent Participation; Policy Formation; Political Issues; Rural Education; Small Schools; Superintendents; Teachers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Consolidated school; Mittelpunktschule; Zentralschule; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Bildungsmittel; Information need; Informationsbedürfnis; Lehrerfortbildung; Elternmitwirkung; Politische Betätigung; Politischer Faktor; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; School; Schools; Schule; Schulrat; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende
Abstract	In an effort to identify and prioritize critical issues in rural education, three groups were surveyed: policy makers (N=10 national, 7 state, and 4 local); practitioners (limited to 48 school superintendents from districts randomly drawn by region, with no more than 2 to a given state); and trainers (N=48 trainers with 16 in each of the categories of pre-service trainers, administrative consultants to school districts, and in-service trainers). Results indicated some differing concerns and information needs among the respondents surveyed. All groups wanted to learn how to deal with limited resources; interest in personnel was high across all groups; reorganization, consolidation, and cooperation concerns were highest among policy makers; strong interest was expressed among all groups for curriculum, teaching materials, basic and vocational education, and services; policy makers were moderately interested in student motivation, and there was division in the areas of education for community participation vs education for cosmopolitanism; practitioners were especially interested in obtaining community approval of educational expenditures and policy makers and practitioners were more concerned about parental involvement than were trainers; practitioners were interested in innovative techniques only when applicable to rural restrictions; and policy makers were interested in local power structures. (JC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01