<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Young people in rural areas are gradually convinced that they have to leave their homes for education. They move, and hereby amplify the problem of local economic and demographic decline. The article explores the role of education as well as the social dynamics behind this process in a minor community in Denmark. Drawing on children and young people’s perspectives, the article examines how children gradually come to doubt on the local opportunities and become alienated to local lifeforms. Based on an anthropological fieldwork, the authors show how day-care institutions, schools and youth education play an important role in this process.</p></abstract>

Young people in rural areas are gradually convinced that they have to leave their homes for education. They move, and hereby amplify the problem of local economic and demographic decline. The article explores the role of education as well as the social dynamics behind this process in a minor community in Denmark. Drawing on children and young people’s perspectives, the article examines how children gradually come to doubt on the local opportunities and become alienated to local lifeforms. Based on an anthropological fieldwork, the authors show how day-care institutions, schools and youth education play an important role in this process.

Mobility and belonging – A case from provincial Denmark

Journal of Pedagogy

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Young people in rural areas are gradually convinced that they have to leave their homes for education. They move, and hereby amplify the problem of local...

Mobility and belonging – A case from provincial Denmark

Published Online: Jul 17, 2020

Page range: 107 - 126

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2020-0006

Keywords
learning to leave, rural upbringing in Denmark, role of education

© 2020 John Gulløv et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mobility and belonging – A case from provincial Denmark

Published Online: Jul 17, 2020

Page range: 107 - 126

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2020-0006

Keywordslearning to leave, rural upbringing in Denmark, role of education

© 2020 John Gulløv et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
learning to leave, rural upbringing in Denmark, role of education