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Direct linkAnne Parfitt; Stuart Read – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2024
Walking-creating was adopted to probe orientations towards communities, while early career teachers were on clinical placement in the remote South West Peninsular of England. The aim of carrying out walking-creating events was to elicit whether and if so, the extent to which, early career teachers were sensitive to the communities where they had…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Education, Place Based Education
Download full textCaruso, Emily; Schunko, Christoph; Corbera, Esteve; Ruiz Mallén, Isabel; Vogl, Christian R.; Martin, Gary; Arrázola, Susana; Bandeira, Fábio Pedro; Calvo Boyero, Diana; Camacho Benavides, Claudia; Cardoso, Thiago Mota; Chan-Dzul, Albert; Conde, Esther; del Campo García, Carlos; Huanca, Tomás; Sampaio, José Augusto Laranjeiras; Oliveros Lopez, Sara; Porter-Bolland, Luciana; Ruiz Betancourt, Olga – Journal of Research Practice, 2016
This article explores the relationship between institutional funding for research and community-based or co-enquiry research practice. It examines the implementation of co-enquiry research in the COMBIOSERVE project, which was funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme for research and innovation, between the years 2012 and…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Research, Community Involvement, Inquiry
Hillyard, Sam; Bagley, Carl – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2015
The paper draws upon ethnographic research of two contrasting English primary schools and their villages to explore the themes of belonging and exclusion in contemporary rural contexts. The paper first describes the schools and the villages. A second, conceptual section explores the meaning of rurality in relation to the themes of class, belonging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Inclusion, Elementary Schools
Hennessy, Catherine H.; Means, Robin – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2015
This article reflects on the experience of a large interdisciplinary research team that included geographers in a study of older people's participation in community life in areas of rural Britain. The mechanisms used for facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration around the development of a collective conceptual framework and associated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Human Geography, Older Adults
Gearty, Margaret – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
This paper explores the combination of storytelling and reflective action research as a means to effect change and learning within and across communities and organizations. Taking the complex challenge of "pro-environmental behaviour change" as an example, the paper reflects on the experiences of a pilot project run for the UK government…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Action Research, Foreign Countries, Rural Areas
Ward, Julie; Mills, Helen Frances; Anderson, Alan – Harvard Educational Review, 2013
During the winter of 2011-2012, Weardale, England, was the setting for an ambitious informal adult education project. In this rural area in the northeast part of the country, the local arts collective, Jack Drum Arts, established a community play project entitled "The Bonny Moorhen." This dramatic undertaking aimed to retell the story of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Drama, Community Programs
Bagley, Carl; Hillyard, Sam – Australian Journal of Education, 2011
Recent debates within UK rural studies have stressed the shifting interplay of economic, social, political and cultural forces, with a concomitant blurring as to what constitutes rural living, rural spaces and even rural occupations. This article situates the rural school within this social, cultural and political landscape and attends to the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, School Role, School Community Relationship
Shergold, Ian; Parkhurst, Graham – Journal of Rural Studies, 2012
Rural dwelling and older age are both associated with a higher risk of social exclusion, with accessibility identified as having an important facilitating role. The interactions between transport-related exclusion and older age, particularly in a rural context, are considered though analysis of quantitative and qualitative data collected from over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Social Isolation, Mobility
Andrews, Rhys – Rural Sociology, 2011
Religious communities are important sources of bridging and bonding social capital that have varying implications for perceptions of social cohesion in rural areas. In particular, as well as cultivating cohesiveness more broadly, the bridging social capital associated within mainline religious communities may represent an especially important…
Descriptors: Protestants, Social Integration, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
Clark, David; Southern, Rebekah; Beer, Julian – Journal of Rural Studies, 2007
This article compares two different institutional models--state-sponsored rural partnerships and community-based development trusts--for engaging and empowering local communities in area-based regeneration, using the Isle of Wight as a case study. Following a critical review of the literature on community governance, we evaluate the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Community Programs, Community Involvement, Politics
Hoggart, Keith – Journal of Rural Studies, 2007
This paper asks, what are the attributes of the rural working class population in England and Wales? Drawing on the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) Longitudinal Study (LS), household and personal attributes at both the 1991 and 2001 Censuses are examined, with a view to exploring how far the rural working classes can be conceptualised as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Population, Rural Areas, Working Class
Venner, David G.; Cotton, Sally – 1986
Of potential interest to small towns in rural areas, this report describes England's first attempt at applying to a rural area the concept of a multi-agency information and advice center based on a library. The comprehensive review covers all phases of the project: (1) identification of a community's information and advice needs; (2) consultation…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Information Services
Aldridge, Fiona – 1999
The Adult and Community Development Project (Project 99) was established to distribute one-time development grants to all local education authorities (LEAs) in England and some voluntary and community organizations for implementation of short-term activities in the adult and community education field. Organizations receiving grants were requested…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Adult Students
PDF pending restorationWhitfield, Richard C. – 1980
A three-phase interdisciplinary effort between educators and environmental planners is focusing on the social effects of rural primary school reorganization now occuring in England as a result of a declining birth rate and the resulting need for school closure. A questionnaire mailed nationally to rural Local Education Authorities, cross-community…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Case Studies, Community Change, Consolidated Schools
Tulett, Caroline – Adults Learning (England), 2001
A study of rural adult learners in northern England found that 96% had not been involved in learning in the past 5 years; transportation and child care difficulties hinder participation; a stigma is attached to participation in literacy programs; and inability to pay is a significant barrier. (SK)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adults, Community Education, Educational Attitudes
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