NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

Learn more about the history of ERIC here. PDF icon

Back to results
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
ERIC Number: EJ600048
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-8756-0534
Imagining Rural Life: Schooling as a Sense of Place.
Bushnell, Mary
Journal of Research in Rural Education, v15 n2 p80-89 Fall 1999
In a reborn rural community populated by former urbanites, a small private school established by newcomers provides a place where upper-middle-class newcomer families negotiate their sense of rural place and contest that sense with working-class long-time residents' concept of rurality. Former urbanites' conception of rural community emerges as imagined and situational. (Contains 20 references.) (Author/SV)
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Relations, Community Schools, Elementary Education, Private Schools, Rural Population, Rural Resettlement, Rural Schools, School Community Relationship, School Role, Small Schools, Urban to Rural Migration
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Newcomers; Sense of Place