Educational Research in Rural Europe: State, Status, and the Road Ahead

Abstract

To conclude this book on research in rural education in 11 European countries, and the patterns of change that it has revealed, we now foreground the forward-looking strategies that have emerged in the preceding chapters. This is not to suggest transplantation of policies or solutions between countries: such schemes frequently fail (Phillips, 2009; Raffe, 2011). Instead, it offers ways of thinking about small, rural, isolated, and peripheral schools’ futures.