147023 20260418110656.0 doi 10.1080/17508487.2024.2433025 sideral 140835 ART-2026-140835 eng Bagley, Carl Troubling rurality and rural schooling: a qualitative meta-synthesis of research in rural schools in three European national school systems 2026 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This qualitative meta-synthesis collects and analyses the multiple and many-faceted understandings, experiences, practices, and school to community or individual relationships described in qualitative research on rural education and schooling in three European national contexts (Sweden, Northern Ireland, and Spain). Our aim was to generate and present a simplifying analytic synthesising narrative about the politics, practices and outcomes for and in schools in rural areas. In all three countries, the lack of specific relevance of the school to its community through the curriculum is palpable. Instead, the curriculum tends to be performative and to transmit primarily ‘official metro-centric knowledge’, rather than a more local culturally sensitive knowledge with intrinsic value to local communities. That said, the relationship between rural schools and the communities they serve, and the space and place they occupy, still has the potential to be important, meaningful, powerful and disruptive toward dominant power relations and official knowledge. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN PID2020-112880RB-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/EDU2012-32657 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es 2.7 2024 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 120 / 762 = 0.157 2024 Q1 T1 1.517 2024 Education 2024 Q1 11.2 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Beach, Dennis Fargas-Malet, Montserrat Vigo Arrazola, María Begoña Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-9734-8596 4001 215 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Educación Área Didáctica y Organiz. Esc. 67, 1 (2026), 97-113 CRIT STUD EDUC Critical studies in education 1750-8487 393766 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/147023/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1972497 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/147023/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:147023 articulos driver 2026-04-18-11:05:06 ARTICLE