Village Schools in England: At the Heart of Their Community?

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Public schools’ characteristics and teacher turnover in Oman

“…Intentions to transfer are high in schools located in villages and low in schools located in cities. This result is consistent with Bagley and Hillyard (2011) study who found out that teachers' do not prefer village schools because of the low resources available for students in these schools. In this study, it is not known why teachers in Oman have high intentions to transfer from village schools.…”

“…For example, Bagley and Hillyard (2011) studied village schools in England and indicated that schools location in rural communities in addition to other factors such as the inability to recruit and hire teachers lead to schools closure. This may indicate that teachers do not prefer teaching in villages.…”

Consultation in Special Needs Education in Rural Schools in Sweden– An Act of Collaboration between Educators

“…Similar results have been found in the Nordic context (Kalaoja & Pietarinen, 2009;Karlberg-Granlund, 2009;Solstad, 2009). Close relationships between the school and the rural community promote a sense of belonging and participation (Autti & Hyry-Beihammer, 2014;Bagley & Hillyard, 2011;Kalaoja & Pietarinen, 2009;Woods, 2006). However, study findings also point in the opposite direction.…”

“…When conflicts appear in the community, the close relationships can negatively affect the community-school relationship (Karlberg-Granlund, 2009;Mc Henry-Sorber & Shafft, 2014). Several researchers (i.e., Bagley & Hillyard, 2011;Hargreaves, Kvalsund, & Galton, 2009;Murdoch, Lowe, Ward, & Marsden, 2003) argue that it should not be assumed that just because a group of parents live in the same area a strong and positive relationship always exists between the community and the rural school. Another factor that can challenge the relationship in a negative way is the constant concern about the future of the rural school and the school's alleged inability to meet high-quality standards (Lind & Stjernström, 2015;Pettersson et al, 2016;Woods, 2006), although there is no evidence, at least not in a Nordic context, that rural schools are inferior when it comes to student performance and learning outcomes (Åberg-Bengtsson, 2009;Solstad, 2009).…”

‘The fieldworker not in the head's office’: an empirical exploration of the role of an English rural primary school within its village

“…Silverman 2007) was well-suited to the emerging challenge to explore the situation of an absent head and mirrored Payne's (1996) argument that qualitative research inherits the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 The initial findings from the project's exploration of two village schools rejected the assumption that the school is automatically central to village life (Bagley and Hillyard 2011). Hillyard (2010) further argued that rural schools are best understood in context, i.e.…”