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School Choice in an English Village: Living, Loyalty and Leaving (2015)
Journal Article
Bagley, C., & Hillyard, S. (2015). School Choice in an English Village: Living, Loyalty and Leaving. Ethnography and Education, 10(3), 278-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2015.1050686

In late modernity, the marketisation of public services has become a global policy phenomenon. In the case of schooling, this has resulted in parents discursively positioned as consumers of education making a choice between providers of education. To... Read More about School Choice in an English Village: Living, Loyalty and Leaving.

Community strikes back? Belonging and exclusion in rural English villages in networked times (2014)
Journal Article
Hillyard, S., & Bagley, C. (2015). Community strikes back? Belonging and exclusion in rural English villages in networked times. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 19(7), 748-758. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2014.964569

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... Read More about Community strikes back? Belonging and exclusion in rural English villages in networked times.

'The fieldworker not in the head's office': an empirical exploration of the role of an English rural primary school within its village (2013)
Journal Article
Hillyard, S., & Bagley, C. (2013). 'The fieldworker not in the head's office': an empirical exploration of the role of an English rural primary school within its village. Social and Cultural Geography, 14(4), 410-427. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2013.779743

This paper presents the findings of a project exploring the role of an English primary school inside its rural village. The fieldwork discovered that the school had lacked a full-time head teacher for a number of years and the paper explicates three... Read More about 'The fieldworker not in the head's office': an empirical exploration of the role of an English rural primary school within its village.

Rural schools, social capital and the Big Society: a theoretical and empirical exposition (2013)
Journal Article
Bagley, C., & Hillyard, S. (2014). Rural schools, social capital and the Big Society: a theoretical and empirical exposition. British Educational Research Journal, 40(1), 63-67. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3026

The paper commences with a theoretical exposition of the current UK government's policy commitment to the idealised notion of the Big Society and the social capital currency underpinning its formation. The paper positions this debate in relation to t... Read More about Rural schools, social capital and the Big Society: a theoretical and empirical exposition.

Village Schools in England: At the heart of their community? (2011)
Journal Article
Bagley, C., & Hillyard, S. (2011). Village Schools in England: At the heart of their community?. Australian Journal of Education, 55(1), Article 5

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 sit... Read More about Village Schools in England: At the heart of their community?.