Dynamics of social class, race, and place in rural education

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...

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Other Authors Howley, Craig B.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014.
Subjects
Education, Rural > Cross-cultural studies.
Education, Rural > Social aspects.
Educational sociology.
Education > Rural.
Educational: Social sciences, social studies.
Education.
Rural communities.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806612796
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-564-8
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 352 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Craig Howley and Aimee Howley
  • Chapter 1. Grappling with constructs / Jerry Johnson
  • Chapter 2. Social class, the commodification of education, and space through a rural lens / Michael Corbett
  • Chapter 3. Schooling and place: A hundred years of contests in rural kyrgyzstan / Rakhat Zholdoshalieva, Alan J. DeYoung, and Umut Zholdoshalieva
  • Chapter 4. There are no jobs here: Opportunity structures, moral judgment, and educational trajectories in the rural northwest / Rayna Sage and Jennifer Sherman
  • Chapter 5. The fate of rural communities and schools in a corporation-dominated political economy: A historical interpretation / Paul Theobald and Craig Campbell
  • Chapter 6. The rural influence on the relationship between social class and educational outcomes / Robert B. Pittman, Dixie L. McGinty, and Julie Johnson-Busbin
  • Chapter 7. Saving the children of the poor in rural schools / Craig B. Howley, Aimee A. Howley, Caitlin W. Howley, and Marged D. Howley
  • Chapter 7. School funding in mississippi: A critical history and policy analysis / Jerry Johnson
  • Chapter 8. Getting there from here: Schooling and rural abandonment / Caitlin W. Howley and Kimberly Hambrick
  • Chapter 9. Schooling in rural australia: Tensions between youth aspirations and community sustainability / Hernán Cuervo
  • Chapter 10. Dynamics of diversity in a rural school / Megan Rhodes
  • Chapter 11. Corporate oligarchy, white ethnocentrism, and xenophobia: Exploiting minority labor and segregating public schools in the heartland of america / Michael J. Volk
  • Chapter 12. Learnin' a mountain to fly: Appalachian dialects and language arts textbooks / Edwina Pendarvis
  • Chapter 13. Durable issues in rural education / Jerry Johnson
  • Editor biographies.

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