Keywords
Rural Community, Community Resilience, Sense of Community, School Closure
Abstract
In this study, a community resilience model is utilized to explore the impacts of a rural school’s closure and its implication on community resiliency in the Village of Limerick, Saskatchewan. The findings from four semi-structured interviews and three focus groups indicate that the school’s closure created a number of constraints that have considerable implications for community resilience. In particular, the school’s closure decreased the residents’ sense of community. In addition, as a result of the school’s closure, the community resident’s experienced diminishing civic engagement in the form of volunteerism, community recreation participation, and intergenerational relationships. This paper demonstrates the challenges of a rural school’s closure on cultivating community resiliency, but also the changes to rural residents’ lives and their communities.
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Recommended Citation
Oncescu, Jacquelyn
(2014)
"Creating Constraints to Community Resiliency: The Event of a Rural School’s Closure,"
Online Journal of Rural Research & Policy:
Vol. 9:
Iss.
2.
https://doi.org/10.4148/1936-0487.1068
