Two tendencies in research and policy on youth and education are firstly a general focus on urban contexts and their differences, and secondly a presentation of the non-urban as uniform. Based on a research project on rural young people and their education, we draw attention to these tendencies as problematic, before then discussing some similarities and differences between young people’s lives and education in different rural contexts.

I denna studie undersöks barns beskrivningar av att sluta i fritidshem med fokus på institutionell ordning och institutionella gränser mellan skola, fritidshem och hem.