Looking back: community reaction to rural school amalgamations in the Peterborough-Cavan region

reflective paper and project submission produced by Johann Ramsaran.

Date of project submission: April 2005.

This paper outlines the process of collecting and critically examining the community response to rural one-room school closures in the Peterborough/Cavan region during the late fifties and well into the sixties. To gather reactions the author conducted a comprehensive literature of local histories, conducted interviews of past pupils and teachers of local one-room schools, the examination of post-war education theory an policy.

The package includes: literature review ; final research report ; bibliography ; electronic copy of slideshow presentation ; interviews and transcripts.

"School photos from CB&B Historical Society."

GEO470: Research in Human Geography.