C.A. Bagley
Rural schools, social capital and the Big Society: a theoretical and empirical exposition
Bagley, C.A.; Hillyard, S.
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S. Hillyard
Abstract
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 the rural and adopts an ethnographically-informed methodological approach to provide an in-depth look at two contrasting English rural primary schools and their relationship with their village communities. The empirical investigation seeks to explore the extent to which the potential for building social capital is evidenced in current rural school–community relations within these two locales. The findings reveal a highly differentiated countryside in which any attempt to essentialise the abilities of rural schools to generate social capital in order to build the Big Society should be avoided.
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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
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Feb 21, 2013 |
Publication Date | Feb 1, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Nov 27, 2012 |
Publicly Available Date | May 29, 2014 |
Journal | British Educational Research Journal |
Print ISSN | 0141-1926 |
Electronic ISSN | 1469-3518 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 40 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 63-67 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3026 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1470998 |
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Bagley, C. and Hillyard, S. (2014), Rural schools, social capital and the Big Society: a theoretical and empirical exposition. British Educational Research Journal, 40 (1): 63–78, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/berj.3026. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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