Rural Community Influences on Effective School Practices
Abstract
Explores how rural communities support or constrain school‐level processes which enable effective instruction to occur. Grounded in a conceptual framework of school context indicators, reviews the research and literature on rural education to describe rural community characteristics. Then utilizes analytic induction to consider how these characteristics may influence the school processes identified. The findings suggest that rural community influences are not immutable, and that communities can both constrain and enable structural and cultural aspects of schools which shape effective instruction, depending in large part on how the school mediates the community′s influences. Then offers suggestions for research and development in rural schools.
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Citation
Capper, C.A. (1993), "Rural Community Influences on Effective School Practices", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 31 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/09578239310038796
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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