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Surface, Jeanne L.; Theobald, Paul – Peabody Journal of Education, 2014
The idea that rural schools and communities, indeed, even rural people, are somehow substandard or second-class has deep historical roots. The goal of this essay is to reveal that history so as to render stereotypical conceptions all things rural less powerful and more easily dismissed by rural school professionals. Consequently the focus is on…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Leadership, Stereotypes, Misconceptions
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Theobald, Paul; Rochon, Ronald S. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2006
The following is an historically-based analysis of a new phenomenon affecting rural schools and communities: animal confinement operations. A contrast is made between "enclosure" as it unfolded in England a few centuries ago and the way animal concentration units constitute a second, "modern" form of enclosure today. In both…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Essays, Foreign Countries, Animal Husbandry
Theobald, Paul – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
As we move into the 21st century, a largely unprecedented trend has emerged. Rural and urban schools, for so long faced with distinctly different challenges, have increasingly found themselves facing similar problems: a declining tax base, rising rates of linguistic and cultural diversity, deteriorating infrastructures, and inability to attract…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Educational Cooperation, Educational History
Theobald, Paul – Journal of Rural and Small Schools, 1988
Argues that preparation for rural teaching should include a seminar focusing on the literature about rural schooling and rural community dynamics. Suggests a curriculum of agrarian literature to help the future rural teacher deal with xenophobia, differing aspirations, and common illusions about rural life. (DHP)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Pastoral Literature, Regional Attitudes, Rural Education
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Theobald, Paul; Howley, Craig – Teacher Educator, 1998
Examines the university's role in professionalizing rural teachers, contending that lack of a substantive definition of education's public purpose creates teachers who are unprepared to contribute meaningfully to the intellectual life of their communities. Teacher preparation programs should abandon the instrumental focus and confront unique…
Descriptors: College Role, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Theobald, Paul; Curtiss, Jim – FORUM for Applied Research and Public Policy, 2000
Community-oriented pedagogy, or place-based schooling, uses schools as a source of community renewal, not community disintegration; allows students to construct their own understandings through interaction with the community environment; creates creative and critical thinkers who can also meet academic standards; and addresses our society's…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Active Learning, Citizenship, Constructivism (Learning)
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Sherman, William L.; Theobald, Paul – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2001
Though many maintain that current standards-based school reform is unprecedented, an educational reform effort begun nearly a century ago set standards for improving rural midwestern schools. Begun during the tumultuous Progressive Era, the standard-school initiative emerged from a larger concern for the quality of American rural life. A…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Legislation
Leo-Nyquist, David; Theobald, Paul – 1997
There is an evolving paradigm shift in the field of rural education away from emulating urban schools and toward a pedagogy of place. This shift is influenced by the following trends: 1) the rediscovery of the unique features of rural and small schools as strengths to be nurtured, not problems to be solved; 2) the recognition that centralized,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Technology, Models
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DeYoung, Alan J.; Theobald, Paul – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1991
Examines political, social, cultural, and economic variables that historically have contributed to rural resistance to educational reform. Discusses various roles of schools in the rural community. Demonstrates that the seeds of current debates on issues such as local versus national control of school reform are in the past. Contains 44…
Descriptors: Centralization, Consolidated Schools, Educational Change, Educational History
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Theobald, Paul – Research in Rural Education, 1988
Portrays the controversy surrounding schools and education in a rural community experiencing both an influx of urban and suburban newcomers and the effects of urban sprawl. Reports on surveys of student educational attitudes, household information, and outside activities, and on interviews with teachers, school administrators, and residents.…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Surveys, Culture Conflict
Theobald, Paul – 1994
The economic decline of rural communities and the accompanying trend toward rural school consolidation are intimately connected to the American liberal and individualist world view. In general, liberalism has meant having a representative government, an economic arrangement that maximizes the freedom of accumulation, and an educational system that…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Educational Philosophy, Educational Trends, Efficiency
Theobald, Paul; Nachtigal, Paul – 1995
Traditionally, rural schools have been tightly linked to their communities, and the process of schooling has reflected local values, mores, and ways of life. However, during the early 1900s, the beginning of the Progressive era, allegiance to local ways received heavy criticism. An inherent assumption, that bigger is better, was promoted as the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Consolidated Schools, Educational Change, Educational History
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Theobald, Paul – American Journal of Education, 1993
Critiques views of the one-room country school experience in the Midwest states. Describes advances an alternative interpretation grounded in the social, political, and economic circumstances that impinged on local institutions, arguing that these schools may not have been the "laboratories of democracy" that conventional wisdom calls…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Curriculum, Democratic Values, Economic Factors
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Howley, Craig; Theobald, Paul – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1996
Reviews a book that documents the circumstances surrounding the closure of a small, rural West Virginia high school. The book's strength derives largely from its crossing of disciplinary borders to address social, political, and economic factors that have influenced changing educational values and the trend toward consolidation in rural West…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Change Agents, Cultural Influences, Educational Change
Theobald, Paul – 1997
This book addresses the role that rural schools can play in promoting community and developing a community-oriented world view. Specifically, this book suggests that rural schools, through concerted pedagogical and curricular attention to the dynamics of their particular place, can rekindle community allegiance and can nurture the fulfillment that…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational History
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