The Challenges of Small Rural Schools in a Standards-Based Accountability System: A Neglected Perspective

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 11:40 am Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Leadership and Policy in Rural Education: Navigating Challenges and Enhancing Systems (Table 9)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to explore how teachers perceive the school’s role and activities in an outcomes-based school governance system in the case of a small school in a non-urban area. Poor knowledge results in smaller primary schools in rural municipalities have received relatively little attention. Material resources such as labor, industries, and raw materials are necessarily located in local areas within nations. Thus, the local area plays a central role in the multiple connections that form the basis of the global economy and can help explain why many rural areas are in a weak socio-economic situation. The research question focuses on how administrative staff and teachers perceive the conditions and goals for the rural school.

Author

• Ninni Wahlstrom, Linnaeus University