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School And Community, Community And School: A Case Study Of A Rural Missouri Setting, Melia K. Franklin
School And Community, Community And School: A Case Study Of A Rural Missouri Setting, Melia K. Franklin
Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
How do a school and a community interact? This question guided this dissertation examining one rural school and community. The purpose of this case study was to investigate the relationship between the rural Marceline R-V School District (a K-12 school system) and its community, Marceline, Missouri.
The framework for this study included the time-honored theories of Ferdinand Tonnies, with the contemporary work of Joyce Epstein and Mavis Sanders. With structure provided by Bolman and Deal, this document examined both the school and community.
This study included artifacts and documents of both the community and school. Documents and artifacts included yearbooks, …