'The fieldworker not in the head's office': an empirical exploration of the role of an English rural primary school within its village
'The fieldworker not in the head's office': an empirical exploration of the role of an English rural primary school within its village
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“不在总部的田野工作者”：英国乡村小学在村内角色的实证探索
DOI：
10.1080/14649365.2013.779743
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发表时间：
2013
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2.5
通讯作者：
Hillyard S
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作者：
Hillyard S
本文介绍了一个探索英语小学在乡村中的作用的项目的调查结果。实地调查发现，该校多年来一直缺乏全职班主任，论文解释了三个原因来解释原因：（1）人际关系问题（人员流动率高和前任校长的遗产）； (2) 村庄的政治经济发展及其地方“地主统治”的转变；最后（3）村庄空间环境建设（战后扩建及生活设施状况）。这三种动力具有协同作用，这是了解农村环境的复杂性及其对社会关系（例如缺席的头）的影响的关键。因此，它支持最近将人际力量与当地环境的时间和空间特征一起定位的理论。本文最后利用这一见解来考虑学校以及任何新任校长在不久的将来可能面临的问题。该研究基于 2009 年至 2011 年进行的民族志田野调查。本文采用多策略研究方法，利用参与观察、访谈、文献、视觉和历史材料来支持其分析。
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 dynamics to unravel why: (1) interpersonal issues (high staff turnover and the legacy of a former head); (2) the political–economic development of the village and its shifting local ‘squirearchy’; and finally (3) the construction of the spatial environment of the village (post-war expansion and the situation of amenities). These three dynamics possessed a synergy and this was key in seeing the complexities of this rural environment and its bearing upon social relations such as the absent head. It therefore supports recent theorising positioning interpersonal power alongside the temporal and spatial character of a local environment. The paper concludes by using this insight to consider what problems the school—and any new head teacher—might face in the immediate future. The research is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2009–2011.Using a multi-strategy research approach, the paper draws upon participant observation, interview, documentary, visual and historical material in support of its analysis.