Rural education for the twenty-first century: identity, place, and community in a globalizing world

Abstract

This collection of essays examines the various social, cultural, and economic intersections of rural place and global space, as viewed through the lens of education. The contributions explore practices that offer both problems and possibilities for the future of rural schools and communities, both in the United States and other countries. The chapters are as follows: Introduction: rural education and community in the twenty-first century / Kai A. Schafft and Alecia Youngblood Jackson; Part one, ‘Spaces of identity’: Learning to be rural: identity lessons from history, schooling and the U.S. corporate media / Paul Theobald and Kathy Wood; Poverty and school achievement in rural communities: a social-class interpretation / Craig B. Howley and Aimee Howley; ‘The drama of their daily lives’: racist language and struggles over the local in a rural high school / Susan L. Groenke and Jan Nespor; Fields of discourse: a Foucauldian analysis of schooling in a rural U.S. southern town / Alecia Youngblood Jackson; Part two, ‘Placing education’: The challenges of student transiency for rural schools and communities in the era of No Child Left Behind / Kai A. Schafft, Kieran M. Killeen, and John Morrissey; Wharf talk, home talk, and school talk: the politics of language in a coastal community / Michael Corbett; Globalization, asymmetric urbanization, and rural disadvantage in Sub-Saharan Africa / Sarah Giroux, Fatou Jah, and Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue; Teaching school in rural America: toward an educated hope / Jacqueline Edmondson and Thomas Butler; Part three, ‘Teaching communities’: Tribally controlled colleges and universities: global influence and local design / Susan C. Faircloth and John W. Tippeconnic III; The golden cage of rural college access: how higher education can respond to the rural life / Patricia M. McDonough, R. Evely Gildersleeve, and Karen McClafferty Jarsky; Opening their eyes: e-learning for rural and isolated communities in Australia / Stephen Crump and Kylie Twyford; Advocating for English language learners: U.S. teacher leadership in rural Texas schools / Rebecca M. Bustamante, Genevieve Brown, and Beverly J. Irby; Growing up rural and moving toward family-school partnerships: special educators reflect on biography and place / Gretchen Butera and Lisa Humphreys Costello; Conclusion: economics, community, and rural education: rethinking the nature of accountability in the twenty-first century / Kai A. Schafft.

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