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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456125803321

Autore

Reynolds David R

Titolo

There goes the neighborhood [[electronic resource] ] : rural school consolidation at the grass roots in early twentieth-century Iowa / / David R. Reynolds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c1999

ISBN

1-58729-307-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Disciplina

379.1/535

379.777

Soggetti

Schools - Centralization - Iowa - History - 20th century

Rural schools - Iowa - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-298) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction: Placing rural educational reform; 2 Family, neighborhood, church, and school; 3 The country life movement and moral landscapes of modernity; 4 The political economy of public schools in the midwest during the golden age; 5 Educational reform in early twentieth-century iowa; 6 Rural resistance to consolidation: who? why? where?; 7 Rural school consolidation and the social construction of place: a case study of delaware county; 8 Rural school consolidation and the making of buck creek; 9 Rural school consolidation and the remaking of buck creek

Epilogue: rural school consolidation - misplacing educational reform?Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Despite being the centerpiece of rural educational reform for most of the twentieth century, rural school consolidation has received remarkably little scholarly attention. The social history and geography of the movement, the widespread resistance it provoked, and the cultural landscapes its proponents sought to transform have remained largely unexplored. Now in There Goes the Neighborhood David Reynolds remedies this situation by examining the rural school consolidation movement in that most midwestern of midwestern states,



Iowa.