Rurality Diversity And Schooling

Author : Neroli Colvin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350368293

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Rurality, Diversity and Schooling by Neroli Colvin Pdf

Migration and refugee settlement policies have brought significant demographic changes to some regional centres over the past two decades and this book focuses on one such centre, a mid-size town in New South Wales. Historically, social relations in rural settlements have been enacted primarily within a "white/black" (Anglo/Indigenous) binary but in recent years this town has become home to several hundred refugees from Africa, South-East Asia and the Middle East. Using interview, observational and documentary data, the book examines how multiculturalism is understood, valued and lived in the town's two public high schools. Schools are key sites for everyday interactions between people from diverse ethnic, cultural, language and religious backgrounds. Drawing on critical theories of discourse, space and race, the book examines a host of anxieties in the town and its schools about recent demographic changes revealing how notions of rurality, steeped in colonial narratives about European settlement, productivity and racial superiority, continue to shape how “difference” is perceived and experienced in regional communities.

Author : Amy Price Azano,Devon Brenner,Jayne Downey,Karen Eppley,Ann K. Schulte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000220438

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Teaching in Rural Places by Amy Price Azano,Devon Brenner,Jayne Downey,Karen Eppley,Ann K. Schulte Pdf

This teacher education textbook invites preservice and beginning teachers to think critically about the impact of rurality on their work and provides an overview of what it means to live, teach, learn, and thrive in rural communities. This book underscores the importance of teaching in rural schools as an act of social justice—work that dismantles spatial barriers to economic, social, and political justice. Teaching in Rural Places begins with a foundational section that addresses the importance of thinking about rural education in the U.S. as an educational environment with particular challenges and opportunities. The subsequent chapters address rural teaching within concentric circles of focus—from communities to schools to classrooms. Chapters provide concrete strategies for understanding rural communities, valuing rural ways of being, and teaching in diverse rural schools by addressing topics such as working with families, building professional networks, addressing trauma, teaching in multi-grade classrooms, and planning place-conscious instruction. The first of its kind, this comprehensive textbook for rural teacher education is targeted toward preservice and beginning teachers in traditional and alternative teacher education programs as well as new rural teachers participating in induction and mentoring programs. Teaching in Rural Places will help ensure that rural students have the well-prepared teachers they deserve.

Author : Yoho, Louise M.,Moore, Jarrett
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781668474389

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Expanding the Vision of Rurality in the US Educational System by Yoho, Louise M.,Moore, Jarrett Pdf

The dominant narratives of US rurality within educational research and literature centers on the Appalachian and southern US perspectives. However, there is a need to add texture and expand the vision of rurality in US schools and education. Expanding the Vision of Rurality in the US Educational System provides readers, especially college and university faculty in pre-service education programs, with a better understanding of the rural students they teach and the rural communities where they will eventually teach. It also attempts to move the discourse beyond the deficit framework for understanding rural communities. Though the book does not ignore barriers in rural communities, it focuses on the strengths and opportunities available to rural educators without depending on the rural idyllic. Covering key topics such as diversity, belonging, and regional rurality, this premier reference source is ideal for administrators, policymakers, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Author : Robert Petrone,Allison Wynhoff Olsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475849189

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Teaching English in Rural Communities by Robert Petrone,Allison Wynhoff Olsen Pdf

Showcasing the voices, perspectives, and experiences of rural English teachers and students, Teaching English in Rural Communities promotes equity, diversity, and inclusivity within rural education. Specifically, this book develops a Critical Rural English Pedagogy (CREP), which draws attention to issues of power, representation, and justice related to rurality. Based on the assumption that “rurality” is a social construct, CREP critiques deficit-laden stereotypes and renderings of rural places and people that circulate in media, popular discourse, and even education at times. In doing so, CREP opens up possibilities for educators and students to use the English classroom as a space to better understand the complex issues they face as rural people and ways to promote more nuanced and comprehensive representations of rurality. In particular, this book highlights English rural classrooms whereby students examine representations of rurality in literary and media texts; decenter dominant settler-colonist narratives of rural spaces, places, and people; develop understandings of Indigenous perspectives and cultural practices, particularly related to land stewardship; and engage in local outreach to promote inclusivity within rural communities. This book also gives special attention to ways race and racism may factor into literacy education in rural contexts and possibilities for rural educators to attend to these issues.

Author : Tyler Hallmark,Sonja Ardoin,Darris R. Means
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000992793

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Race and Rurality by Tyler Hallmark,Sonja Ardoin,Darris R. Means Pdf

This book offers context, research, policy, and practice-based recommendations centering college access and success for a historically overlooked population: rural Students and Communities of Color. Through an exploration of how colleges and universities can effectively welcome students from rural areas who identify as Asian and Pacific Islander, Black and African American, Hispanic and Latinx, and/or Indigenous, this text challenges the misleading narrative that rural is white, thereby placing these students and their communities in conversation with national higher education discourse. Rich contributions on scholarship, practice, and policy address the intersection of racism and spatial inequities and consider the unique opportunities and challenges that rural Students and Communities of Color face across the United States’ higher education landscape. Chapters provide direction on creating equitable policies and practices, as well as details of the assets, resources, and networks that support this population’s success. This edited collection provides a wealth of insight into the recruitment, access, persistence, and retention of rural Students of Color, equipping higher education researchers, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers with the knowledge they need to better account for and support rural students and communities across race and ethnicity.

Author : Caitlin Howley,Sam Redding
Publisher : Information Age Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Community and school
ISBN : 1648024696

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Cultivating Rural Education by Caitlin Howley,Sam Redding Pdf

Rural life is more complex than it is perhaps credited. This edited volume explores several themes that highlight such complexities, particularly in terms of what they imply for rural teaching and learning. These themes include the geographic, demographic, and socioeconomic diversity within and across rural communities; the notion that rurality is not a deficit but rather a context; and the array of novel and interesting ways to build upon rural assets and overcome challenges so that rural students are not afforded fewer educational opportunities simply by virtue of their zip code. More practically, this book offers counsel for readers who may be interested in learning more about rural circumstances so that they can make informed and responsive decisions about policies and programs targeting rural students, educators, and schools.

Author : Craig B Howley,Aimee Howley,Jerry D Johnson
Publisher : IAP
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623965648

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Dynamics of Social Class by Craig B Howley,Aimee Howley,Jerry D Johnson Pdf

Half the world’s population lives in rural places, but education scholars and policy makers worldwide give little attention to rural of education. Indeed, most national systems, including in the developed world, treat their educational systems as institutions to “modernize” the global economy. The authors in this volume have different concerns. They are rural education scholars from Australia, Canada, the United States, and Kyrgyzstan, and here their focus is the dynamics of social class: in particular rural schools but also in rural schooling as a local manifestation of a national (and the global) system. For the most part, the volume comprises relevant empirical reports, but none neglects theory, and some privilege theory and interpretation. First and last chapters introduce the texts and synthesize their joint and separate meanings. What are the implications of place for social class? How do class dynamics manifest differently in more and less racially homogeneous rural communities? How does place affect class and how might class affect place? How does schooling in rural communities reproduce or interrupt social-class mobility across generations? The chapters engage such questions more completely than other volumes in rural education, not as a final word or interm summary, but as an opening to an important line of inquiry thus far largely neglected in rural education scholarship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education, Rural
ISBN : UVA:X005071931

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Innovative Approaches in Rural Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004432864

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Educating for Social Justice by Anonim Pdf

Educators from across the United States offer their experiences engaging in rural, place-based social justice education.

Author : Maria R. Coady,Paula Golombek,Nidza V. Marichal
Publisher : Understanding Rural Education
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Education
ISBN : 9004546596

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Educating Multilingual Students in Rural Schools by Maria R. Coady,Paula Golombek,Nidza V. Marichal Pdf

Illuminating issues of diversity at the intersection of rural education and multilingual learners (ML) in the United States, this edited volume brings forth new research that captures the importance of place and rurality in the work of educators who serve multilingual learners and their families. The six chapters in this book demonstrate that education for teachers, leaders and staff, professional development programs, and government-funded projects aimed to improve rural education need to begin with three interrelated, multifaceted principles. The first principle is the need to center place and rurality as essential factors that affect education for all educators, students, and families who live, work, and attend schools in rural communities. Second, educators must humanize multilingual students, their families, and their cultures in ways that go beyond merely acknowledging their presence - they must deeply see and understand the lives and (hi)stories of the multilingual students and families that they serve in their rural schools. Finally, the third principle involves identifying multilingual resources for ML students and their families. Given the persistent inequities in access to resources and opportunities that rural ML students and families face, this last principle requires careful planning, networking, and advocating in ways that can truly effectuate change. Contributors are: Jioanna Carjuzaa, Maria R. Coady, Paula Golombek, Shuzhan Li, Kristin Kline Liu, Nidza V. Marichal, Charity Funfe Tatah Mentan, Kym O'Donnell, Stephanie Oudghiri, Darrell Peterson, Sonja Phillips, Jenelle Reeves and Yi-Chen Wu.

Author : Slapac, Alina,Coppersmith, Sarah A.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799819646

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Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators by Slapac, Alina,Coppersmith, Sarah A. Pdf

Educators all over the world are being challenged to provide effective instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse learners and immigrant communities while valuing and celebrating students’ cultural backgrounds. This task requires training, professional development, cultural sensitivity, and responsibility to promote positive outcomes. Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators is a critical research publication that bridges linguistics theory and practice and comprehensively addresses all fundamentals of linguistics through the English language learning lens. Featuring topics such as curriculum design, immigrant students, and professional development, this book is essential for educators, academicians, administrators, curriculum designers, instructional designers, researchers, policymakers, and students.

Author : Lisa Schade Eckert,Janet Alsup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317587422

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Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities by Lisa Schade Eckert,Janet Alsup Pdf

This definitive look at teaching English in rural secondary schools contests current definitions and discussions of rural education, examines their ideological and cultural foundations, and presents an alternative perspective that conceptualizes rural communities as diverse, unique, and conducive to pedagogical and personal growth in teaching and learning. Authentic narratives document individual teachers’ moments of struggle and success in learning to understand, value, and incorporate rural literacies and sensibilities into their curricula. The teachers‘ stories and the scholarly analysis of issues raised through them illuminate the unique challenges and rewards of teaching English in a rural school and offer helpful insights and knowledge for navigating the pedagogical landscape.

Author : Barbara Pini,Robyn Mayes,Laura Rodriguez Castro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429684326

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Rurality and Education by Barbara Pini,Robyn Mayes,Laura Rodriguez Castro Pdf

This book broadens the scope of the subject of rural education and enlivens the ways in which the subject may be studied. Through textual and visual analysis of a range of sources – including young adult novels, the farming simulation game ‘Hay Day’ and reality television programs – the contributors investigate how the lives of young people in rural spaces are mediated by a range of social locations including class, ethnicity and sexuality. Additionally, through rich and detailed ethnographic work, the book explores the complicated and multifaceted meanings of rural places and examines how these meanings shape experiences of schooling for teachers and students. In doing so, the book embeds the study of rural education in explorations of patrilineal inheritance on family farms, international migration, globalisation and economic restructuring. It aims to start a conversation about the robust and complex ways in which the confluence between ‘rural’ and ‘education’ may be imagined, experienced and researched. This book was originally published as a special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

Author : Lisa A. Hazlett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475859621

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Teaching Diversity in Rural Schools by Lisa A. Hazlett Pdf

Teaching Diversity in Rural Schools: Attaining Understanding, Tolerance, and Respect Through Young Adult Literature aims to assist secondary English Language Arts rural educatorsand students regarding diversity education through the use of rural, small town-themed young adult literature. While appropriate for any rural educator, the Upper Midwestern states (IA, MN, MT, NE, ND, SD, and WY) are focused on because they are unique in their predominantly White residents, with few to no racial and cultural minorities in all locations, large or small. Teaching rural students about minorities and facilitating in developing understanding, tolerance, and respect toward those different from oneself is difficult when absent from communities and schools. However, this book helps in reaching these goals through the use of titles that consider specific topics of cultural and racial minorities, such as those who are LGBTQ+, undocumented, homeless, having exceptionalities, managing grief/loss, and more. Also addressed are rural communities and schools, the purpose and importance of young adult literature, and locating quality rural, small town-themed novels. Suggestions for using this literature, activities, discussion topics, and recommended titles are also provided.

Author : Paul M. Nachtigal,Paul Nachtigal Director
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000310382

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Rural Education by Paul M. Nachtigal,Paul Nachtigal Director Pdf

The close-knit, personal nature of small rural communities results in school and community operating as a single integrated social structure. Useful rural school improvement strategies must, therefore, address needs that are recognized by both the local school and the community and must operate in a style congruent with the local setting. Although outside ideas and resources may contribute greatly to successful plans to improve rural schools, a high level of local involvement is essential in determining the specifics of those plans. This is clearly demonstrated by the thirteen case studies presented in this book, in which the strategies that have been effective over time in resolving rural school problems are distinguished by a high degree of local participation. The cases–chosen to provide good examples of particular strategies and also to represent the diversity that characterizes rural America–cover centrally designed, heavily funded programs as well as small-scale, locally initiated efforts in such areas as teacher training, the introduction of new curricula, and community participation in education decision making and political action. The final chapters analyze the case studies in practical terms and recommend policy and practice for future rural school improvement.