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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, David R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schools--Centralization--Iowa--History--20th century.

Schools.

Rural schools--Iowa--History--20th century.

Rural schools.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9781587293078

1587293072

OCLC:

50321049