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The Hermit Crab Solution: Creative Alternatives for Improving Rural School Facilities and Keeping Them Close to Home
By: Barbara Kent Lawrence
Format: Softcover book |
Pages: 128 |
Copyright: 2004
| $18
 The original mother of invention, Nature, programmed the hermit crab to adapt existing
structures to its own use. The hermit crab searches for an empty shell and moves into it; when the
crab grows too large, the shell is abandoned, perhaps to be recycled by a smaller crab. What rural
communities can learn from this unassuming specialist in adaptive reuse is that finding and
reusing cost-effective accommodations can be a brilliant survival tactic.
The Hermit Crab Solution: Creative Alternatives for Improving Rural School Facilities and
Keeping Them Close to Home, by Barbara Kent Lawrence, can help educators consider a
range of such strategies to help rural people keep their small schools where they
belong—in their communities. Implementing these strategies may take longer than the
hermit crab's search for a new place to live, but the results can be equally satisfactory. Finding
solutions to facilities issues that challenge the viability of small schools takes time, effort,
persistence, and creativity, but crafting a school facility that serves all members of the
community and helps to sustain its viability is a goal worth achieving.
Four chapters cover the following themes:
- the case for keeping rural schools local
- the condition of rural school facilities and obstacles to their improvement
- creative solutions to rural facilities challenges (11 examples)
- lessons learned and strategies to consider for planning with the community, identifying
assets and liabilities, working with policy, and funding the project
The ideas presented, which have grown out of strategies and practices created and implemented
by rural communities, will inspire you to look carefully at assets and alternatives hidden within
your community.
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