ERIC Number: EJ1325973
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 14
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Country Houses Repurposed as Private Schools: What Might Be the Motivations?
Walford, Geoffrey
Oxford Review of Education, v48 n1 p14-27 2022
This paper is a further exploration of the phenomenon of historic country houses repurposed as private schools. In a previous paper it was shown that 55 English private schools within the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference and the Girls' Schools Association are partially housed within former country houses. This paper investigates some of the possible motivations for schools choosing to occupy such redundant country houses. There are a number of obvious reasons, such as their availability at low cost with appropriate facilities that could be readily used by the schools, but in some cases, it was found that the country house's historic associations with arts, culture, and learning were a particular motivation for repurposing into schools.
Descriptors: Private Schools, Educational Facilities, Motivation, Educational History, Single Sex Schools, Secondary Schools
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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