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Young People's Opinions on Rural Sweden.

29 May 2018-International Education Studies (Canadian Center of Science and Education. 1120 Finch Avenue West Suite 701-309, Toronto, ON M3J 3H7, Canada. Tel: 416-642-2606 Ext 206; Fax: 416-642-2608; e-mail: ies@ccsenet.org; Web site: http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/es)-Vol. 11, Iss: 6, pp 45-58
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on adolescents motivations about remaining in rural areas in the Mid Sweden Region, a part of Sweden with decreasing school performance scores and high out-migration.
Abstract: This study focus on adolescents motivations about remaining in rural areas in the Mid Sweden Region, a part of Sweden with decreasing school performance scores and high out-migration. The study is based on 1,500 young people’s responses to a Web-based survey within the framework of a regional school development project. The research questions focused on: whether youths were going to stay there or move the future in urban or rural areas, influences, and the future choices and differences among genders, regions, and age groups. The empirical data are processed with statistical analysis. The study confirms previous research on young people’s relocations from rural areas; jobs and education are important motives, and the most prone to move are women. What is new knowledge is that lessons about the region’s importance have a positive, significant effect on individuals’ plans to remain in their home municipality. This can and should be highlighted in local, regional, and national politics, but more importantly in school discourses. Since school plays a role in students’ thinking and future choices, a larger formation effort could be of great value for norms and regional political standpoints. The study has relevance to the international terms of similar geographical areas.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a new research agenda for Swedish rural research, which includes natural resources in production and governance, demographic challenges, the rural economy, local development, rural policies and finally the new rurality.
Abstract: The working paper presents a new research agenda for Swedish rural research. Starting from a theoretical discussion on rurality as a research field and the motives for a specific rural research, we move to issues of definition and research perspectives. In the end, the specific rural environment has two basic features. Sparse structures affecting all aspects of human activity including social relations, demography, economy etc. and the rural physical environment which is different from the urban. The paper suggests six research fields altogether creating the core of Swedish rural research: natural resources in production and governance, demographic challenges, the rural economy, local development, rural policies and finally ”the new rurality”. This last field is an attempt to look forward and address issues following on today’s major trends. The new rurality also point at a the paradigmatic shift for rural areas in Sweden that may follow from climate change and increasing energy and food prices as well as an increase in the demand for forest products.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of an integrative, systematic literature review of regional educational development in combination with school development in Sweden during the last 40 years, and the most important implication is the need for reanalysis of the values that permeate the entire school system and the community of life values in rural areas.
Abstract: In order to examine regional educational development in combination with school development in Sweden during the last 40 years, this paper presents the results of an integrative, systematic literature review. The study shows a sprawling result: a dozen regional projects mostly directed to higher education, little debate, mostly descriptive studies, weakly evaluated governmental educational initiatives, and hardly any research or debates ranging from preschool through the whole school system. However, the most important implication is the need for reanalysis of the values ​​that permeate the entire school system and the community of life values ​​in rural areas.

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TL;DR: The second edition of Popper's 'falsificationism' examines the problems of explanation and the aims of social science through the lens of theory and method.
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TL;DR: Hollowing Out the Middle: The Wealth and Poverty of Regions as mentioned in this paper is a sociological study of why so many young people choose to leave the rural areas of the United States.
Abstract: My mother and father grew up on North Dakota farms in first-generation and second-generation immigrant families, respectively. Between their families, there were 18 children, 14 of whom stayed in the state to seek their fortunes and raise their own families. I grew up in one of those families in Bismarck, N.D., along with my eight brothers and sisters, only one of whom now lives in the state. The rest of us are scattered from coast to coast, with one overseas. So, from one generation to the next, the stay-at-home rate went from 78 percent in my parents’ families to 11 percent in the family they created. Multiply that one little anecdote by many thousands, and you have the demographic story of the Great Plains, as well as other rural areas in the United States, as people have moved from the farm to nearby cities and to points across the country and around the world, all within a couple of generations. If you were one of the authors of Hollowing Out the Middle, you would view this as a big problem for those rural areas and a call for action. But if you were the author of The Wealth and Poverty of Regions, you would view this as so much economic destiny, an unsurprising trend that has occurred throughout the world as technological efficiencies have shifted labor from the land to the city. That these two books would have such distinct reactions to this demographic phenomenon is suggested by the backgrounds of the authors. Hollowing Out the Middle is written by two sociologists who traveled to a small (unnamed) town in Iowa to survey its citizens and to come to a better understanding of why so many young people choose to leave. During their stay, the authors turned their focus from “is” statements (what is happening) to “ought” statements (what ought to be done). In other words, they saw some facts and wanted to change them. The Wealth and Poverty of Regions is written by an economic geographer interested in why differences in wealth exist among different communities and regions within nations. In his case, he saw some facts and wanted to explain them. These issues are important, not only for rural areas that are struggling with what to do, if anything, about dwindling populations, but also for successful small cities and large metro areas that want to keep their competitive edge. A lot of money is spent every year by government offices at all levels to revive this region or that town or another city. Some succeed, many fail and most keep trying. The Region

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"Young People's Opinions on Rural Sw..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Rural communities must provide possibilities, opportunities, and services for young people and see them as an investment in the future of society and not as a cost (Carr & Kefalas, 2009)....

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  • ...The so-called creative class seems to move more because of the job than the place (Niedomysl & Hansen, 2010) and migration patterns of the class seem to be only marginally higher than those of other groups....

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  • ...The social capital is a prerequisite for joint, mutual norms and networks, and it has the greatest significance for development, culture, and social environment (Dahlström, 1996)....

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"Young People's Opinions on Rural Sw..." refers background in this paper

  • ...What emerge as important influences today are creativity, technology, and tolerance (Florida et al., 2010)....

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  • ...Social and cultural venues are prerequisites for rural sustainable development (Florida et al., 2010; Helve, 2003; Kåks, 2007)....

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