Rules Beyond the Rules: An Ethnographic Study of Informal Institutions in the Community School

school management guided by informal and rules. These types of rules are not written but appear as a tacit agreement between school and taking informality as a central for study, how these rules are created, communicated, and continued. study light on how informal rules interact with formal rules and focuses on the implications of such informal rules and practices. This is based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork 2018, sporadically (in and) out of my study area, in Manpur Village of Kaveri District. This study sheds light on unwritten social/cultural/customary rules and practices related to generating resources, proper management and coordination among staff, and students, the involvement of stakeholders in school activities, and the way they are created, communicated, and enforced in ‘formal’ school setting. a context such as schools.